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DECENNIAL RECORD 



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CLASS OF 1880, 



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UNION COLLEGE. 



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THE DECADE. 



Temp or a labuntur, tacitis series cimus antris, 
Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. 

— Ovid. Fast. Lib. vi. 

Ten years have wrought but few changes in the membership 
of the Class of '8o. A single asterisk dots its muster roll — a 
single member from the sixty odd classmates who graduated from 
the Freshman class thirteen years ago, has passed over the great 
divide. It is a vital record probably unequalled in college his- 
tory, and although in our case as in many others, death chose a 
shining mark for his fatal arrow, we may count ourselves most 
fortunate that our ranks are to-day so nearly intact. 

So swiftly and silently the years sped by that we hardly real- 
ized their passage, or stopped to count them, till the decennial 
anniversary of our graduation was close upon us. We had 
scarcely noticed the annual change in the final numeral of the 
year of our Lord. It was only when in a single night the 8 
became a 9, we awoke to a stern realization of the fact that we 
were ten years away from the year 1880. 

Yet the decade has wrought neither decadence nor decay. 
Sobered a little, perhaps, by the growing responsibilities of the 
passing years, our lives are broader and deeper, more evenly bal- 
anced, better adjusted to our several environments, and there- 
fore more useful, more charitable, more successful and, on the 
whole, perhaps, more happy. 

The principal events in the history of individual members 
have been followed in our former bulletins, and are carried for- 
ward to date in the pages which follow. They are variously 
colored scenes, these fifty pictures of human life, which go to 



make up the composite of '8o's history. They tell of joy and of 
tears, of homes brightened by prosperity, happiness and budding 
life, and of other homes over which has fallen the shadows of 
misfortune or care, or perhaps the blacker shadow of the wing 
of the destroying angel. But the joy of one has been the grati- 
fication of us all, and the affliction of one the sorrow of us all. 
Fraternal congratulations and fraternal sympathy have flowed 
like a shuttle, back and forth, weaving still tighter and closer the 
bonds of mutual friendship and a heartier unity. 

These sketches and portraits speak for themselves, and are 
in themselves a complete history of the class for the period 
since our last published bulletin. A word as to the college and 
its instructors may be of interest to those who have not made 
frequent visits to alma mater. 

On the campus and about the college we see but few changes 
since our departure ten years ago. Upper Union street is indeed 
greatly changed and greatly beautified by the asphalt pavement, 
and the widening of the sidewalk up the hill to the Blue Gate, 
but we breathe a sigh as we miss the old stone parallels trodden 
by two generations of students, until they were worn and smooth. 
The Blue Gate is a bluer gate than in our day, the result of 
a recent re-painting. Mrs. Nott, several years since, rejoined 
the good Doctor in the " promised land," and the house is now 
occupied by President Webster, better known to us as " Web." 
We all remember what became of the high board fence which 
separated the terrace walk from Prexy Potter's house, and it has 
never been replaced, greatly to the improvement of the grounds. 
The Potter house, now college property, is occupied by two of 
the professors. The terrace is unchanged, save by a row of 
handsome young elms extending from the Blue Gate to Jack 
Foster's house, and the boys may still find on the " grand old seat 
of stone," the initials and devices wrought deeply and painfully 
years ago. The " gray old walls " are still as gray as of old, and 
externally unchanged. Lest their outlines may have grown indis- 
tinct in the recollection of those who have not lately visited her 
halls, we reproduce them here. Inside, however, considerable im- 
provements have been made in making the rooms more cheerful 
and home like. A " long felt want" has been the substitution in all 
the dormitories of ornamental ceilings of corrugated iron, imper- 











SOUTH COLLEGE. 




NORTH COLLEGE. 



vious to water, and less pervious to sound, so that the Freshman 
no longer needs to go to sleep with an umbrella over his head 
when a Soph, happens to room above him. In the sanitary- 
arrangements, too, great improvements have been made, and the 
students of to-day are generally much more comfortable than we 
used to be. Whitey, Perk and Billy Wells still occupy their 
accustomed quarters. " Arty " Wright, '82, now Prof. Wright, 
Adjunct Professor of Modern Languages, occupies Web.'s old 
quarters in N. S. S. C, and Prof. Truax, '75, of the English 
department, has Staley's house in N. S. N. C. Another modern 
innovation which brings tears to our eyes is the removal of the 
carved and ancient benches in the chapel, immortalized all the 
way round from the Freshman to the Senior corner, with the 
graven memorials of the Class of '80. In their places have been 
set a lot of disgracefully modern and unsentimental opera chairs. 

The central building looks just as it used to, and is no more 
useful now than then. Behind it, however, back towards the 
woods, extending around toward either college, is a handsome 
and really useful building, erected several years after our gradu- 
ation — the Powers Memorial— devoted, the central part to the 
college library, and the curved wings to comfortable and well 
equipped recitation rooms. A wide and handsome corridor 
extends around the whole curved front. At the end of the 
southern wing, shown on the extreme right of our illustration, is 
the President's office, occupied as the '8o meeting room at the 
late Commencement, and across its gable was stretched the 
ample banner of the Class. One of the most striking ornaments 
of the Library is a large framed group containing all the original 
photographs reproduced in this book, besides a few others 
received too late for reproduction. The group and the individ- 
uals are properly labelled and will prove an incentive and an 
inspiration to future generations. 

Still in the rear of this building and on the very edge of the 
woods, is mounted the grinning god which was the frequent object 
of our moonlight devotions, before which we offered whole heca- 
tombs of Freshman victims, and poured out vari-colored libations, 
and which the Class have formally adopted as its tutelary guardian 
and patron saint. Lest his pleasing mug may have faded from 
the memories of some, we reproduce it in all its matchless beauty. 



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The grove, the garden, the " brook that bounds through Old 
Union's grounds " are all there, and all unchanged. Familiar 
sights meet us at every turn. There are the same delightful 
walks through the woods, the same magnificent view from the 
College grounds ; we find our autographs still written in unfading 
chemicals on a yellow window pane in the chemical laboratory, 
and we even find the familiar "W. L." on the bulletin board. 
" Lammy " himself is a landmark we frequently meet in our walks 
about the place, and he hasn't turned a hair since he provided 
the scientifics of our Class with " thought books," and tried to 
teach Kemp the German idiom. We even heard that same old 
prayer of his a short time ago, with the u central, three-fold, all- 
vivifying thought " still " doing its complete and thorough work 
on heart and mind." But the boys don't applaud his majestic 
periods as they did in our day. 

Perk's celebrated pear tree is now barren, so are Whitey's grape 
vines. Whitey has taken to raising less alluring garden products, 
and now buys his grapes, as well as the fermented juice thereof. 
Judge Landon's venerable William goat now goes to sleep at 
night without the harrowing expectation of being nightly wakened 
to do duty in the society halls, or on top of the College buildings. 
Perk's servant girl now pulls down the blind when retiring, and 
his back yard is less populous at her bedtime than twelve years 
ago. Whitey now leaves his jelly in the back window and his 
pies in the cellar with entire impunity. Mrs. Benedict has a new 
peacock, which screams all night in uninterrupted strains. Water- 
melons and apples grow unplucked on the neighboring farms. 
The " smale fowles maken melodie" with necks unwrung, and the 
cattle in the College pasture go home in the mornings with dis- 
tended udders. The Freshmen go unarmed, and are even treated 
as if they had rights. In fact, the modern Union student is a 
disgustingly flabby, unenterprising and uninteresting personage, 
and in our time would not have been tolerated over night, with- 
out a coat of tar and feathers. Delta Q. is dead, the chestnut 
and the cane rushes are dead, "smoking out" is dead, the "set 
up " is moribund, even the tin horn is relapsing into desuetude. 
O tempora ! O mores ! 

In the faculty there are many changes. Col. Pickett and 
Maria, its most active and popular members, are both dead. So 




POWERS' MEMORIAL BUILDING 




EIGHTY'S PATRON SAINT. 



are Pinkey Pearson, Professor Price, and Tutors Davis and Ballart. 
Prexy Potter left in '84, and went to Hobart. Web. left in '83, 
to go to Rochester University, but was called back in '88, as 
President. Staley, the star gazer, is President of the Case School 
of Applied Science in Cleveland. Professor Alexander is Pastor 
of the University Place Presbyterian Church in New York, and is 
still sought out by any of the boys contemplating matrimony. He 
has provided three of us with wives, but as yet has failed to provide 
himself with one. Jack Foster is still alive, and an emeritus 
professor, but he is disgruntled, and is seldom seen on the College 
campus. Professor Darling is in the Auburn Theological Seminary 
as professor. Poppy Lowell is living in retirement and literary 
pursuits in Schenectady. Lieut. Best is at Newport. Taylor 
Lewis and Captain Jack died in our Freshman year, having lived 
only to see our Freshman aggregation, and then departing in 
satisfied peace. So that of all the noble array of instructors in 
our time, the Golden Era of Union College history, all that are 
left are Whitey, Billy, Perk and Lammy, and Web., lately recalled 
as President. 

Yet we do not venture to say that the faculty is any less gifted 
or capable than in our day. New men have taken the places of 
the old, men of experience, enthusiasm and ability, in whom the 
instruction is safely confided. One of the most important chairs 
is filled by our own Ripton, and figuratively, if not physically, he 
fills it so full that he laps over on both sides of it. Other young, 
brilliant and enthusiastic instructors are nobly maintaining the 
high quality of Old Union's instruction. 

Dr. Webster makes an ideal college president. He is dignified, 
earnest, capable and enthusiastic, and has the affection and 
confidence of trustees, faculty, students and alumni. Since his 
accession the college has grown in prestige and influence, while 
the classes have nearly doubled. It has just received a gift of 
$ 100,000 for the endowment of a chair of political economy and 
social science. We may confidently entrust the future of alma 
mater to President Webster, who has a welcome even heartier 
than usual for any returning member of the Class of '8o, his 
favorite class in college. 

Outside the instruction, all the College interests are flourish- 
ing. Baseball is as lively as in our day, and in 1890 as in 1880, the 



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College nine secured the State inter-collegiate pennant. Football 
is now a thriving fall sport, and the Union team has scored some 
notable victories. The gymnasium, the glee club, the literary and 
secret societies are all in a prosperous condition. Two new 
fraternities, Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Theta, have established 
chapters at Union since we left. The Alpha Delta Phi, Psi U. 
and Sigma Phi are contemplating building chapter houses. A 
new incentive to work in the scientific and engineering courses 
is the establishment of a new honorary society, Sigma Chi, on the 
plan of Phi Beta Kappa ; to which the students in those two 
courses are alone eligible. 

But to return to the Class of '80. No such class ever before 
or since left the portals of Old Union. No class was ever so free 
from internal dissension, separated with such sincere affection 
and regret, or meets again with more lively gratification. No 
class ever before gathered at its decennial reunion more members 
than it graduated. No class ever celebrated a more unique, 
enjoyable and successful reunion, and no class was ever before, 
at the close of its first ten years, represented in both Faculty and 
Board of Trustees. 

All is well ; the past, at least, is secure. Let us then strive to 
make the future as glorious as the past. Let us keep Old Union 
and her interests ever present in our hearts. Let us cultivate 
closer and more intimate relations with each other, and more than 
ever before, make the interests of each the common concern of 
all. 

This decennial reunion has fully demonstrated how thoroughly 
enjoyable these anniversary class gatherings are, and it is to be 
hoped they will hereafter be attended by the Class in still larger 
proportions. We can hardly hope that our marvellous vitality 
will bring us to another stated meeting with numbers undimin- 
ished, but let as many as possible attend every commencement, 
and especially the anniversaries. The year 1895 will be the 100th 
anniversary of the foundation of Union College, and the 15th of 
the graduation of the Class of '80. Either event would make 
that commencement famous ; their coincidence will make it im- 
mortal. The opening of the 20th century, and our own 20th 
anniversary, is another coincidence worthy of our celebration. 
At that time we will also elect officers for the following decade. 



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Five years later will come our quarter-centennial, and there- 
after, even up to our semi-centennial in 1930, and beyond that, 
as long as there are four or five of us left, we will gather at the 
close of each decade, rattle our dry bones together, straighten 
our bent and withered forms, uncover with trembling fingers our 
bald heads or silvered locks, and with cracked voices and tooth- 
less gums, we old boys will once more whoop up our old cheer for 
Union and Eighty. 

" The boys " we are, "the boys " we'll be. 

As long as three, as two are creeping ; 
Then here's to him, — ah, which is he ? 

Who lives till all the rest are sleeping ! 
A life with tranquil comfort blest, 

The young man's health, the rich man's plenty ; 
All earth can give that earth has best, 

And Heaven at fourscore years and twenty ! 



BIOGRAPHICAL. 



ROBERT C. ALEXANDER. In the phrase of slang, Aleck 
has had the grand bulge on the rest of the Class, in that in pre- 
vious bulletins he has had the pleasure of doing up the boys in 
grand style, with no redress for the hard hits given. We now take 
our turn and propose to give an unvarnished history of his whole 
disreputable career. 

The first two years in New York were spent in direst poverty. 
Unknown to him was the sensation of hunger appeased. A fre- 
quenter of free lunches, he existed rather than lived. Many of 
his old classmates were glad to help him at times and frequently 
stray nickels and tickets to church fairs would find their way to 
his empty pockets. 

But brighter days dawned at last, and in some way, unknown 
to the chroniclers, he wormed himself into the good graces of 
wealthy clients, including Col. Elliott F. Shepard, and when the 
latter became, in 1888, the owner of the Mail and Express, Aleck 
was made the attorney for the paper, as well as a director and 
secretary of the Mail and Express Publishing Co. In this posi- 
tion, and more recently as one of the editorial writers of that 
paper, he has gained success and shekels by the rank use of the 
columns of his newspaper to boom the visionary schemes by 
which he is amassing a fortune. 

The moderate size of this book prevents us from giving the full 
list of honors which have been thrust upon Bob by his grateful 
countrymen. We mention a few only and the rest can be ob- 
tained from the chairman of the committee, who has published 
them in book form and will furnish to the class, postpaid, upon 
the receipt of twelve red stamps. 

We start off with the honor heaped on him last commencement, 
when he was made a life Trustee of Union College, and, second, 
in point of honor, Secretary of the Union College Alumni Asso- 
ciation of New York, which he organized two years ago. He is 
a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Lawyers 



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Club, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. 
He is Chairman of the Committee on Prizes of the State Bar 
Association, and was one of the Committee of ioo, and Secretary 
of one of the most important sub-committees at the Centennial 
Celebration of the Federal Judiciary in New York City, in Feb- 
ruary last. He is a director of the Mohawk Valley and Northern 
Railway Company, and of the Burgess Gun Company. He is 
Vice-President of the Fifth Avenue Stage Co., Attorney for and 
a Director of the International Boiler Co., and of the Stirling 
Co. He is a member of the Lake George Yacht Club, New York 
Canoe Club, American Canoe Association, Riverside Wheelmen, 
League of American Wheelmen, an officer of the Phi B. K. 
Alumni Association of New York, a member of the Twilight 
Club, the Musurgia of New York, Quill Club, St. Andrew's 
Society, American Geographical Society, American Numismatic 
and Archaeological Society, a trustee of the Adirondack League 
Club, which he organized and which owns 100,000 acres of forest 
and lakes in the Adirondacks ; and it is not his fault that he is 
not President of the Union League and Secretary of all the 
other organizations in New York. 

He refers us to the canons of the Presbyterian Church for his 
denominational leanings, and to the editorial columns of the 
Mail and Express (price 2 cents) for his political convictions. 

Close upon our Commencement festivities, and deepened by 
the contrast it afforded, came to us the sad news of the illness 
and death of his daughter and only child. Needless is it to say 
here how deep our sympathies, how tender our feelings towards 
our classmate, impossible to measure the sorrow we felt, and 
only when Time, with its tender healing, shall have scarred the 
freshness of the wound, can we think of our decennial unmixed 
with sorrow and sympathy for our Senior President. 

Address, 23 Park Row, New York. 

RICHARD D. ANABLE. Dick casts a deep gloom over 
the Committee by characterizing our conundrums as " personal 
and obnoxious." All we have the face to do, therefore, is to let 
him tell his own tale of woe. 

" There is so much cool impertinence in the questions of your 
circular that I have determined to ignore them altogether, and to 



of so 




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Anable. 
Benjamin. 



Alexander. 

Benedict. 

Bishop. 



Anderson. 
Ballart. 



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tell my story in my own way. And first, let me assure the boys 
that the vicissitudes of ten years have not in the least changed 
my early love for Old Union, and the pride I naturally felt in 
my confreres of '80. Ten years ! The history of a decade would 
be a long story if told at length, but happily in my case, a 
few words will suffice. While many of my classmates have been 
forming entangling alliances, I have been able to maintain a state 
of independent and unencumbered single blessedness, untram- 
meled by the cares of family, and yet, not averse to assuming 
them should they ever appear irresistibly attractive. So much 
for the paradisiacal aspects of life. The more prosaic side is not 
brilliant, but it has a good, comfortable look. In the fall of 
1880, I began to paddle my own canoe. My first attempt carried 
me into one of the paper warehouses that abound in this region. 
Thence I drifted into a railroad office, and after a short experience 
there became right-hand man to the firm of Goodhue & Birnie, 
water works builders, in which capacity I have spent the last five 
years of my life. In politics, I belong to the party that believes 
in adapting its policy to the condition of the times in which we 
live, rather than in clinging to the antiquated garments of our 
grandfathers ; but owing to excessive modesty, I have sought no 
honor at its hands." 

This is a trifle ambiguous, but it probably means, boiled down, 
that Dick is a Mugwump. It is an open secret that his plans are 
to leave Springfield and seek the wild roaring West, only the death 
of one partner of his firm, and the paralysis of another having 
detained him thus long. He attended the decennial, and, like 
Kemp and several others of the class, succumbed to the insidious 
effects of the Schenectady "water." 

Address, care Goodhue & Birnie, Springfield, Mass. 

WILBER E. ANDERSON. The universal remark on seeing 
the subject of this sketch at Commencement was, " The Same 
Old Andy," and so he is, changed as little as any of the boys, full 
of business, overflowing with puns and wit, excitable as ever, at 
once the target and foil for the jests and good natured fun of all 
the others. The only really new thing about Andy is the pride 
he feels and shows for a younster in Scranton, who bears the 
name of Carl E. Anderson, and who, if his picture does not belie 



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him, is as fine a specimen of the genus boy as any '80 man can 
claim. Elizabeth G. Hollister, on September 16, 1885, joined 
fortunes with him at Scranton, and Andy already shows the 
ripening effects of her good influences. 

Since 1883, Anderson has been in the same business, and in the 
same location as chronicled in our quinquennial, although his 
value to the company has largely increased in the interval, and 
he is in consequence simply rolling in wealth, and has attained 
the position of Engineer for the Real Estate Department of the 
Delaware and Hudson Canal Go. 

Andy's well known musical tendencies were illustrated by his 
symphony bugle concerts at Lake George, and apropos we quote 
from a letter received while he was learning to blow the thing. 
" I have," he wrote, " secured a noble clarion-toned cavalry bugle, 
and would practice it more, but the doctor says that another 
charge of bird-shot would probably bring on blood-poisoning." 
His democratic tendencies while in college have degenerated into 
a policy of tariff for revenue only, and he strongly advocates high 
license and free beer. His liking for the latter beverage dates 
back even beyond the time when he wanted to get away with a 
quart (er) of the stuff for a paltry dime. 

Nothing would please Andy more than to welcome an '80 man 
in Scranton, when he would delight in showing them all the 
sights both above and below ground, and he offers to give to any 
one bearing the class credentials all the coal he can carry away 
with him. 

Address, Providence Place, Scranton, Pa. 

FREDERICK A. BALLART. Diana, since leaving college, 
has been engaged in the drug business, and with the exception 
of a year spent in the Northwest, in Washington and Montana, 
has been located in Syracuse. 

He has become quite a factor in the drug circles of that city, 
and is President of the Syracuse Drug Association, a member 
of the N. Y. S. Pharmacal Association, and has recently been 
taking a post graduate course in pharmacy in Cornell University. 
His address while in Ithaca is 36 East State street. A taste for 
yachting has grown in his nature since leaving college, and he is 
secretary of the Syracuse Yacht Club, and frequently courts 



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death in exciting races to windward on the raging canal. At 
other times his recreation takes the form of furnishing food for 
the doctors by shooting an innocent marker at the matches of 
the Onondaga Rifle Association. j 

Ballart is not yet married. 

High License finds a supporter in him, and the Presbyterian 
church a member. 

Address, 107 Tully street, Syracuse, N. Y. 

JAMES E. BENEDICT. Ben. has again returned to his 
profession, that of a naturalist, pausing only long enough to 
make a fortune in real estate in St. Paul, and then joyfully fleeing 
back to cultivate the society of the bug and the worm. Soon 
after our quinquennial he yielded to Ickler's blandishments, 
severed his connections with Uncle Sam and his deep sea animal- 
culae, and formed a real estate partnership with the Dutchman 
in St. Paul. The firm of Ickler & Benedict thrived, and Teuton 
and Yankee labored together with harmony and success. 
Nothing, however, in all his business career, tickled Ben. so much 
as when they stuck a Catholic Archbishop for $10,000 in a real 
estate deal. It is said he telegraphed the details to his classmate 
Ryan (a namesake, by the way, of the stuck Bishop), his old-time 
antagonist in religious controversy. But Ben, though prosperous, 
owning a fine house in St. Paul, and gathering around him a 
large and growing family, was not content. He yearned for his 
old pursuits, and in the midst of a most intricate real estate 
transaction, he would dash off in pursuit of a new species of 
arachnidae or cimex lectialis, much to the Dutchman's disgust. 
When a lull came last year in the real estate boom, he seized the 
opportunity to escape from the trammels of business life, and 
returned to Washington. He is now assistant naturalist in the 
Smithsonian Institution, with every prospect of promotion, and 
is happy as a stuffed lark in his chosen work, for which he is so 
admirably fitted by nature and training. Took his A. M. at 
Union in 1884. His business and personal relations with Ickler 
were not entirely severed ; the separation, as the latter writes, 
" being only one a menso et thoro, with alimony." 

Address, Smithsonian Institution, or 226 Indiana avenue, 
N. E., Washington, D. C. 



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WM. EVARTS BENJAMIN. Rare and Standard Books, 
Fine portraits for illustrating ; first editions, and choice auto- 
graph letters. No 6, Astor Place, New York. This may look 
like a free " ad." but it isn't. Benjy takes ten copies of this rare 
and unique work. He is a connoisseur, and knows a valuable 
first edition when he sees it, and knows that a few years hence 
these precious volumes will be priceless. Benjamin didn't show 
up to advantage in our former bulletins, but has concluded that 
the class of '80 is pretty good company to be seen in. < He left 
college at the end of Freshman year, and spent the following year 
doing field work on the survey for the Bronx River aqueduct, 
near New York. Disappointed in his hope to rejoin the class in 
junior year, he went instead to New York, as a clerk in a book- 
store. After serving a six years apprenticeship in the book trade, 
in 1884, he started in, at first on a small scale, to build up a busi- 
ness for himself. The result he sums up thusly. " Now, at 31, 
I am a publisher, bookseller, importer, and dealer in manuscripts, 
autographs, &c. /I have worked hard and prospered, having 
trebled my capital, and am fairly satisfied with a growing busi- 
ness and an increasing income." He has published several books 
which have attracted attention, notably the first novel of Edgar 
Saltus, " Mr. Incoul's Misadventure," and a volume of essays by 
Appleton Morgan, entitled " Shakespeare in Fact and in Criti- 
cism." During 1888 and 1889, he published a monthly journal 
called the " Book Lover." 

In 1886, and again in the present year, Benjamin has visited 
Europe to purchase stock, and was thus prevented from attend- 
ing the re-union. He has " trebled his capital" in more ways 
than one, having married, in 1886, the eldest daughter of Henry 
H. Rogers, one of the Standard Oil magnates, and having since 
acquired a daughter. Is an Episcopalian, and a Republican. Is 
a member of the New York Athletic Club. 

Address, 500 Madison avenue, New York. 

CHARLES F. BISHOP. Clings unswervingly to his original 
purpose to become the leading lawyer at the New York bar, and 
is the business end of the law firm of Taylor &x Ferris, in 
Broadway, New York, 3d floor, room 77. (This little ad. is not 
inserted free because Bishop is a member of the Committee. He 



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takes five extra copies, one for each client.) He is a member of 
the Delta Phi Club of New York, the Union League Club of 
Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Young Republican Club, and of the 
Long Island Historical Society, " but in each of them the only 
position of honor or dignity I have held is that of high private. 
This position, I think I may say without egotism, I have filled 
acceptably and with conspicuous ability. I infer this from the 
fact that I have never been threatened with promotion. In 
church affiliations I am a nondescript. Politically I am a Repub- 
lican of the stalwart type, and, of course, a protectionist. I am a 
firm advocate of High License in theory." But Bishop was never 
known to get around in time to practice his theories. He is not 
married. While deliberating, in his leisurely way, which of two 
pretty girls he thought, on the whole, he preferred, both of them 
wearied of waiting, and married elsewhere. " It follows," he 
says, " as a corrollary, that I have no children, — at least it is fair 
to presume that I have none, and I shall insist on the benefit of 
the presumption." 

Lives in Brooklyn, No. 6 Lefferts Place. 

WILLIAM REA BRONK. Bronk turns up at the end of 
the decade with a brand new name interpolated between the two 
with which we were familiar. He claims that his wife discovered 
it in his baptismal record, and insisted that the world should 
have the benefit of it. Although he has the diploma of Cornell, 
and not of Union, filed among his archives, he has lost none of 
his first love for old Union, and for the boys with whom he 
shared our thrilling Freshman (and first term Sophomore) experi- 
ences. Soon after graduation in 1880, he v/as admitted to the 
bar, and has continuously practiced his profession in the city of 
New York. He has already acquired a practice and a reputation 
at the bar seldom attained by a lawyer of his years. Among his 
clients for whom he has conducted a large amount of litigation, 
are the executors of Commodore C. K. Garrison's estate, and the 
New York World, frequently carrying their cases to the highest 
courts, and generally with success. The only statement he fur- 
nishes us, however, in regard to his success, is that "he has 
managed to pay his debts, and keep along with the procession." 
He is a member and an officer of the Cornell Club of New York, 



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" I having found refuge, like ^Eneas of old, in Ithaca, after the 
collapse of my Schenectady Ilium in my Sophomore year at 
Union." He is also a member of the Union College Alumni 
Association of New York, a member of the New York Athletic 
Club, and sundry social organizations. In religion an Episco- 
palian, in politics he presents the anomaly of being a Republican 
and a free trader. Office address, 2 Wall street, New York. 

ISAAC G. BURNETT. Our chaste and modest circular 
was a source of considerable embarrassment to Burnett, who 
says, " It is impossible and inconvenient for me to draw the 
dividing line between facts that should be and facts that should 
not be revealed." The extreme terseness of his replies shakes us 
with a shuddering fear lest the larger part of his career is unfit 
for publication. From the meagre details at our disposal, how- 
ever, we gather that of the ten years since graduation, he has 
spent three in San Francisco, studying and practicing law, with 
an occasional aspiration toward the Episcopal ministry, which was 
never fulfilled. One year was spent (we don't know how, for there 
he " draws his line"), at Chiepas, Mexico, two years as a miner 
in the silver mines at Virginia City, Nevada, and the last four 
years practicing law at San Diego, Cal. From other sources, not 
from Burnett, we learn that he is doing well in his profession, 
was married four years ago, and has a daughter, Phyllis Cleve- 
land. In spite of this nomenclature, Burnett is a Republican, and 
a " Protectionist with a seasoning of free whiskey." Address, 
Lawyers' Block, San Diego, Cal. 

HORACE J. CAMPBELL. This presuming bald headed 
Yankee sends us a narrative of his exploits, which would take four 
pages of this record, besides forwarding us photographs of two of 
his best bridges for reproduction in the pictorial department. 
Horace, however, must have his achievements boiled down, and 
in the way of illustrations, must rest content with the accurate 
and faithful reproduction of his own handsome lineaments. 

Our quinquennial left him practicing engineering and archi- 
tecture in Palatka, Fla. While there he located several lines of 
railroad, and designed and superintended the construction of a 
number of public buildings, hotels, &c, the principal of which 
were the Court House at Gainesville, Fla., and the jail at Savannah, 



QLtf)Z) 

of SO 




Burnett. 
Campbell. 



Bronk. 
Crane. 

Dixon. 



Craig. 
Davenport. 



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Ga. In 1886, he was taken possession of by malaria, and spent a 
year at or near his old Vermont home. In February, 1887, he 
went to Chicago, and became bridge engineer for the extension 
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, from Kansas City 
to Chicago. In this connection he planned and directed the 
construction of five large iron bridges, the principal of which 
were those crossing the Illinois river at Chillicothe, 111., the Mis- 
sissippi, at Ft. Medina, Iowa, and the Des Moines river. Photo- 
graphs of the two former represent graceful yet substantial 
structures, of which the designer and the Class may well be 
proud, and over which we may ride without a qualm of fear. 

In the employ of this company, he was, in 1888, sent East to 
examine into various railway enterprises offered to the company, 
and to interest Eastern capital in their development. One of 
these examinations took him, in January, 1889, to Arkansas, 
and resulted in the purchase and reorganization of the Central 
Arkansas Railway, of which Campbell became a director, general 
manager and chief engineer. A few months later he gobbled the 
Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railway and became its president. 
For passes on either of these roads, address Stuttgart, Ark. 

He is married and has a daughter, whom he declares to be 
the u image of her father." If this be fact, he will have to 
strengthen the hinges of the front gate and lock the windows o' 
nights when she comes of marriageable age. He is a member 
of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a vestryman of the 
Episcopal church, a Republican and a Prohibitionist* or as much 
of either or both as his Arkansan environment renders it healthful 
to be, although from several portions of his anatomy it is said 
that bullets glance as harmlessly as from an alligator's back. He 
believes in moderate protection, in "sniping" subsidies and in 
Blaine's reciprocity scheme. He has forgiven Alexander, but not 
Rogers, for the lacteal newness of the beverage they set up for 
him third term Freshman. 

Address, Stuttgart, Arkansas. 

JOSEPH D. CRAIG. With the exception of the summer of 
1886, spent in Europe, Joe has devoted himself with assiduity and 
success to the practice of medicine in Albany. For some years 
past he has combined instruction with practice, having been 



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Demonstrator in Anatomy in the Albany Medical College since 
1887, and was early this year appointed Lecturer on Anatomy in 
the same institution. He is also the attending physician at St. 
Vincent Asylum in Albany. He is a member of the Albany 
County Medical Society, of the Fort Orange Club, and of the 
permanent Unconditional Republican Club of Albany. At the 
annual meeting of the Union Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, in 1886, 
he was elected an honorary member. He is an unconditional 
Republican, a Presbyterian, a Protectionist, and a High License 
man. He has no wife and no reasonable excuse to offer for his 
delinquency. Address, 12 Ten Broeck street, Albany, N. Y. 

FRANK P. S. CRANE. For the first few years after 
graduation, Crane's career bid fair to be as varied and as prolific 
of adventure as those of the wise Ulysses and the pious yEneas, 
and he would undoubtedly have developed into an Epic hero of 
large proportions had not the Fates willed otherwise and directed 
his course to a place where the only career open to him was the 
prosaic one of pursuing the " almighty dollar." 

Not having any thing definite in view, he first settled in New 
York City, where, with all the patience of Micawber, he waited 
for something to turn up. After a few months his patience was 
rewarded in having an opportunity to join an engineering party 
engaged in the survey of a new railroad in New York and New 
England. Availing himself of this opportunity, he sojourned in 
the " land of steady habits," and some of the other New England 
States for about a year, and then transferred his engineering 
operations to Topeka, Kansas, where he had a very dry time 
living under the prohibitory laws of that State. Yearning for a 
moister climate, he returned to the East after a stay of about 
eight months and settled in Middletown, New York, where he has 
since resided. For a time after his return he continued the busi- 
ness of a civil engineer and added to it that of a contractor lay- 
ing sewers, putting in water-works, etc. His next venture was in 
the business of quarrying blue stone, after which he embarked in 
the coal and lumber business, in which he still continues. The 
firm which was formerly Gordon & Crane, is now Crane & 
Swayze. 
Although a man of marked literary tastes, Crane has written no 



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books, an omission that is probably attributable to phenomenal 
modesty. He seems, however, to have done his full duty as a 
public spirited citizen during his residence in Middletown, for 
he has served three years as assistant foreman of the Excelsior 
Hook and Ladder Company ; one year as Chancellor Commander 
of Launcelot Lodge of the Knights of Pythias ; three years as a 
member of the Board of Education ; four years as Superintendent 
of the Sunday School of the First Congregational Church, of 
which he is a member, and is now serving as a Trustee of that 
church, having recently been elected to that position. 

In politics Crane is a Republican, " in favor of protection to 
a certain extent." Having satisfied himself by a series of inter- 
esting experiments that the prohibitory laws of Kansas and Maine 
are failures, he is " in favor of very high license." 

Crane was married in 1883, to Miss Rosa, of Schenectady, who 
died about five years ago, leaving one child. He was again 
married on June 26th of this year, to Miss Nellie Pronk, of 
Middletown, and their wedding tour included a few days' visit 
with the boys of the Class in camp, at Bolton, on Lake George. 

Address, Middletown, N. Y. 

FRANK S. DAVENPORT. We were somewhat unprepared 
for the volume of history, biography, poetry and reminiscence 
which Davenport shipped us (National Express, D. H.), giving 
his career from his first squawk down to the birth of his last boy. 
He was the first of the Class to enter the matrimonial field, 
leaving college for that purpose, while the rest of us got a bolt in 
Logic on the strength of it, the reverend professor having been 
summoned to perform the ceremony. He also claims the first 
baby, his daughter Bessie having been born June 18, 1880, five 
days before the graduation of the class. Ripton will therefore 
have to retire to second place. Davenport is still, as in the 
quinquennial bulletin, the valued agent of the National Express 
Company at Mechanicsville, " with a year old boy to paste 
labels." He "congregates with Presbyterians of good Republican 
principles, savored with Protection and High License." He 
comes to the front to solve one of the historic enigmas of the 
century, by announcing that it was Hobbs who spiked the 
Sophomore cannon in our Freshman year. He probably knows 



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whereof he speaks. Bessie died January 25, 1882. A son, 
Harry Lee, was born September 24, 1889, and treasured by the 
proud father next to the head of the cane which we took from 
'81, that honorable section of the trophy having been awarded to 
Davenport for the conspicuous part he bore in that sanguinary 
fight. 

Address, Mechanicsville, N. Y. 

GEORGE E. DIXON. No report. Treats our Chesterfieldian 
circular and repeated personal prods with reserve and scorn. 
Only his whiskered mug was received, and that may have been 
sent by his legal representatives. However, we hazard the 
statement that he still lives, and is probably still principal of 
the Egbert High School, in Cohoes, N. Y. 

ANDREW H. DOUGHERTY. With his well known 
modesty, Andy writes the reviewer that he " wishes his biography 
to be brief and with nothing high flown about it," and to be 
consistent, his replies to the interrogatories of our circular were 
decidedly brief, but alas, for Andy ! his record is too well known 
to be dependent upon his census reports. 

We left him in our quinquinnial established in Albany, after 
a long period of study in Paris. The intervening five years have 
been spent in the study of art, and have established for him a 
reputation for excellence of work which will soon place him at 
the head of his profession as a portrait artist. He has spent a 
year and a half in Paris, and on September 10, of this year, sailed 
again for the gay capital. Ripton avows that he doubts Andy's 
devotion to art, and fears that he has fallen from the grace he 
claimed in '85. 

When in Albany, he is located at 59 North Pearl street, where, 
in his bachelor quarters, he gladly welcomes all the boys of '80, 
and always opens his famous ice chest, in which it is said 
Thompy slept when visiting him last summer, and to an old 
classmate, he always shows his choice collection of pictures. 

In his response, Andy's literary achievements is represented 
by an X, but we do not forget his class poems which have covered 
him with glory, even if he was unable to fit the last one to the 
tune selected. As a narrator of short tales, his reputation is also 
well established. 




Ely. 

Gibson. 



Dougherty. 
Gadsden. 
Godfrey. 



Fitzgerald. 
Glover. 



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He attends the Reformed Church, of course, and is inclined 
to think he is a Greenbacker. He is strongly in favor of Tariff 
and Ballot Reform, in fact, any thing that smacks of reform strikes 
Andy hard, and accounts for his trying to pass at the Lake as 
a reformed bunco-steerer. He is not married, but dreadfully 
wants to be, and really ought to be. 

Address, 59 North Pearl street, Albany, N. Y. 

FRANK S. ELY. After five years' experience as station 
agent on the Manhattan Elevated Railway in New York, he 
became a traveling salesman for C. Rogers & Bros., of Meriden, 
Conn., in the silverware business, and traveled extensively over 
the country, especially in the West and South. Was married in 
1883, and is now settled in New York City as the manager of the 
New York store of Rogers & Bros. 

Address, 163 East 1226. street. 

JOHN L. FITZGERALD. Fitzy's replies are, of course, 
curt and monosyllabic. From them we gather, however, that 
since our quinquennial he has been engaged in engineering work, 
with an office in Schenectady, making a specialty of sewer and 
water-works designing and construction. In the way of literary 
work, has contributed various papers to engineering periodicals. 
Maintains a modest reserve, not to say reticence, as to his religious 
and political predilections, perhaps having none of either worth 
mentioning. Is a member of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers. Married in 1888, as shown in Appendix. " No kids." 
Failed to show up at any of the Class exercises at the Reunion. 

Address, Schenectady, N. Y. 

EDWARD MILES GADSDEN. If Eddie's speech at the 
Class supper reflected his true sentiments, and we know that it 
did, the completion of his college course at Washington and Lee 
failed utterly to wean his affections from old Union, or Union's 
Class of '80. He took a law course at W. and L. subsequent to 
his graduation there in 1880, and from 1881 to 1884, practiced 
law in Atlanta, Ga. In the latter year he took a position, under 
the Civil Service Act, in the Post Office department at Washington, 



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where he has served three administrations with fidelity and 
credit. " My special articles have, as yet, not been appreciated, 
and bear the legend, ' Not available for our columns ;' hence 
have not been given that publicity which they merited. Have 
captured one prize of the feminine persuasion, and bear with 
becoming dignity the title, honorably acquired, of " Pa," with 
which I am greeted by a chorus of voices at the daily meeting of 
the select society over which I happily preside." Gadsden takes 
the prize in being the only one in the Class to have more than one 
baby born in a single day. His powers of concentration were 
always most remarkable. " I am the proud and happy father of 
two charming and lovely daughters, both born April n, 1886, 
who are a happy combination of the best Old Virginia and South 
Carolina stock, and who are said to have fortunately inherited 
all the beauty of their grand-parents." He is an Episcopalian 
by inheritance and preference, and a Democrat " with independ- 
ent tendencies " (under the present administration). Believes in 
a tariff for revenue only, and in ballot and high license reforms. 
Address, P. O. Department, Washington, D. C 

WILLIAM J. GIBSON. Has continued to practice the 
healing art " first, last and all the time," since the publication 
of our last bulletin, at the old stand in Philadelphia. In fact, 
he practiced it so assiduously as to completely break him down 
in health, and in July of last year was sent into the Adirondacks, 
where, with the exception of a single visit home, he has since 
remained, in the vicinity of Saranac Lake and Wawbeek, the 
latter being his present address. He there rapidly improved, 
running his 1 1 r pounds avoirdupois up to 140. In May last he had 
an attack of pleurisy which left him in rather bad shape, but later 
reports indicate a decided, and we trust, permanent improvement. 
He will probably spend the coming winter in Asheville, N. C. 

Gibson is a prominent member of the Medical Society of 
Pennsylvania, and has written various articles for different 
medical journals. He is one of the Board of Managers of the 
Central Y. M. C. A., of Philadelphia, and has held various offices 
in local organizations. He is a member and an elder of the 
Fourth United Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, and was a 
delegate to the General Assembly of the U. P. Church, in 1888. 



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He declares himself a Republican in national politics, but inde- 
pendent on local issues. " Married once, to a Philadelphia girl, 
which still holds," and owns a fine boy, William Stewart Gibson, 
two years old. 

Office address, 711 S. 19th street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

DAVID F. GLOVER. After spending four years in teaching, 
Glover went West, according to Greeley's advice, and located in 
Bayfield, Wis., where he began the practice of his profession as a 
civil engineer, and where he has met with great success. He 
successfully engineered two railroads, the Bayfield Transfer R. R. 
and the Bayfield Harbor & Great Western R. R., and is a director 
in each. He is president of the Dalrymple Improvement Co., an 
incorporated body formed for the purpose of improving a town 
site on Bayfield Harbor, and has held several offices of honor 
and trust in his town, He has not, however, been as successful 
in politics as in his profession, for he says : "The fact is, I am 
too honest to make a good run on a ticket, and the above defect 
in my character causes me to run behind the rest of the ticket. 
I succeeded, however, before I was so well known, in being 
elected County Surveyor without an opposing vote, and, two 
years later, was elected by a large majority as an Assessor, but 
when the tax-payers paid their taxes next year they said the 
assessment was too honest and that subdued my aspirations at 
once." 

He is a bachelor, a trustee and elder of the Presbyterian 
Church, a Republican, in favor of protection, ballot reform and 
very high license. 

Address, Bayfield, Wis. 

ELI S. GODFREY. The varied and erratic career 
chronicled in the triennial and quinquennial Bulletins termi- 
nated while under Rogers' beneficent influence in Westerly, R.I., 
and Chub there settled down to a steady and respectable life. 
Until the spring of '87, he remained as chief of the draughting 
department of the printing press manufactories of C. B. Cottrell 
& Sons, but then his roving disposition got the better of him, 
and he joined a surveying party as chief assistant engineer to lay 
out the Tenn. & N. C. R. R., and till August, 1887, he tramped 



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the mountains of Tennessee to his heart's and legs' content. 
Then he purchased the interest of a retiring partner in the firm 
of A. B. See & Co , elevator manufacturers in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
where he is now located, doing a constantly increasing business, 
and fast acquiring wealth, so that no longer can he be classed as 
dead broke. 

The sad portion of Godfrey's history and of more than ordi- 
nary interest to all the Class is the story of the sickness and death 
of his son, Edwin Alexander Godfrey, in 1886, the first-born of 
the Class and the recipient of the Class cup at the Triennial 
Reunion. Edwin was a precocious child, unusually bright and 
mature for his years, but never of rugged health or constitution, 
and on account of his frailness had nestled deeper into the 
affections of his parents than a healthier child might possibly 
have done. Not often in the history of a college class can it 
be recorded of the class baby that it was assisted at its birth by 
a classmate, named after a classmate, and attended during its 
life and last sickness by a classmate, as was the class baby of '80. 
Time, the great assuager of grief, has brought to the stricken 
parents some relief, but the advent of another child, Eli S. 
Godfrey, Jr., who was born April 21, 1887, has brought to Eli 
and his wife new joy, and to-day, a round-faced, rugged little 
urchin fills the house with music and noise and takes the place 
of their first-born in the hearts of the '80 boys who knew 
him. 

Eli has never rushed into print or gained notoriety in the 
political world, but has, nevertheless, made his mark in the 
world by strict attention to business. He is, of course, a 
Republican, a member of the Union League Club of Brooklyn, 
and, he says, a Methodist, but when he attended church last is 
unknown to the chronicler. His devotion to amateur pho- 
tography and his ability to smoke cigarettes were the wonder 
of the camp at Buena Vista. 

Address, 116 Front street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DANIEL PATRICK HALPEN. This wild Irishman from 
Albany maintains a gloomy and impenetrable silence in the face 
of our solicitations for a single word of comfort to assure us 
that he still breathes this mundane ether. We know he is an 



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inhabitant of Albany, and we easily recognize the classic phiz 
which appears in another column. On information and belief 
we allege that he has a wife and a few little Halpens, but as to 
how many there are of the latter, their age, sex, color or condi- 
tions of servitude, that information and belief does not extend, 
and we therefore say not. We are also informed on credible 
authority that he is a lawyer in Albany, in full and regular 
standing, and a clerk of the Supreme Court for the Fourth 
Judicial District. It is safe to predicate, a priori, that he is still 
a Democrat and a Roman Catholic, with leanings towards Pro- 
hibition. We venture the hope that he has permanently reformed, 
is living a quiet and respectable life, has forgiven Whitey and 
purged his soul of the all-pervading, all-penetrating, omnipresent 
and far reaching cussedness which made him a terror to Fresh- 
men and life a burden to all the dwellers in South Section, S. C, 
Whitey included. Address, 103 Madison avenue, Albany, N. Y. 

HERBERT D. HOBBS. Not heard from, but we fear he is 
still alive. Nobody knows any thing about him, and his own 
people and old neighbors at Malone are unable to reveal his 
whereabouts. It is said there that Hobbs, after running a some- 
what variegated career, changed the name which stands on our 
Class roll for another more euphonious, and went to the Territories 
of the Wild West to lose himself. He has, so far as this Com- 
mittee is concerned, effectually succeeded. 

Hobbs was naturally one of the most brilliant men in Col- 
lege, and had he behaved himself and taken care of himself, 
would have been an honor to the Class. He thus points the 
moral, even if his history and portrait do not adorn the tale of 
'8o's decennial jubilee. 

JOHN ICKLER. " Honest John " has forfeited forever all 
claim to this title of honorable distinction. He has proved 
to be a dissembler of the most deceptive and secretive order, 
and a gay Lothario as well. He attended our Reunion and 
spent two weeks on Lake George with the gang, passing himself 
off on the boys and the pretty waiter girls as heart whole and 
fancy free, while at the same time and all the time he had a dark 
secret buttoned up under his vest which he withheld even from 



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Dougherty and Aleck. Within three weeks after the boys had 
shaken the Dutchman's hand in parting, they received an 
announcement of his marriage and departure for Europe on his 
wedding tour. He was married on August 5th to Miss Ida 
Stowell, and on the 27th sailed for the Vaterland, to be absent a 
year or more, visiting the interesting places of Europe. The 
Dutchman deserves all the happiness he's got and all the con- 
gratulations he has received, but he might have given us an 
opportunity of offering them in advance and of getting a set-up 
off him. The following, written only a few brief weeks before 
the happy event, shows the depth of his deception and his wicked 
and fraudulent representations : "I am not married, and can't 
afford to be. Haven't any children and don't want any. Have 
trouble enough without." 

Ickler has remained in the real estate business, steadily ex- 
tending the city limits of St. Paul to include his numerous 
" additions " and gradually swelling his bank account. For 
several years he took Ben. in partnership, made his fortune for 
him, and then sent him back to dig worms. Was for a time col- 
lector of the municipality of South St. Paul. He maintains all 
his ardent devotion for Union and '80, and is in all respects the 
same dear old John. It was painful, however, to note at Lake 
George the degeneration in the Dutchman's formerly exemplary 
habits, to see him puffing at a clay pipe, to hear him cussing over 
a poor hand at cards, or to follow him into the rear door of a 
Lake George saloon on Sunday to have him set up the beer. One 
of Ickler's many distinguished services to the Class was his con- 
struction of the CjfrAzo? TtaiSoLyooyoS clause, now permanently 
imbedded in our Class cry. 

Address, 147 Dakota avenue, St. Paul, Minn. 

WILLIAM H. INGRAM. Our Sophomore president is 
mingling law, real estate, loan brokerage, farming, dairying and 
journalism in various proportions at Sumter, S. C, the first and 
last professions, however, claiming his chief attention, and as in 
the cases of Thompson and Alexander, the two professions seem 
to mingle with* ready affinity. He studied law at the Albany 
Law School and at Columbia, S. C, and began practice at 
Manning, his native town. At the age of 21 he was elected 



CLAp 
°f 60 



m 



csNlO 






ICKLER. 






Ingram. 


Landon. 




H ALPIN. 


Kemf. 


Legge. 




Lawrence 



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Probate Judge of Clarendon County. Thence he went, in 1882, 
to DuPont, Ga., and engaged in the manufacture of resin and 
turpentine. A year later he went to Ocala, Fla., and for five 
years devoted himself to running a law office there and editing a 
local newspaper, interrupted only by a cruise of several months 
among the Spanish islands. Two or three years ago he returned 
to his native State and took up his favorite avocations. He is 
now at the head of the law firm of Ingram & Manning, and is 
the editor of the Watchman and Southron, published at Sumter. 
Is an Episcopalian, and a Democrat, favors free trade, free 
speech and free whiskey. 

" Unmarried. Am guilty without excuse. Have never made 
but one effort in that line. I failed ignominiously, was mortified 
and am hardened. As I grow older I feel less and less inclined 
to embark in waters I know not of." 

He fully expected to be present at the Reunion, but the con- 
junction of a big litigation, a mammoth real estate deal with an 
English syndicate, and the absence of his partner, prevented his 
leaving home. He writes : " To say that I am disappointed but 
mildly expresses the absolute sorrow I feel at not being with you 
as I long anticipated. Please make my excuses and give my love 
to the dear boys. Yours in the ties of '80." 

Address, Sumter, S. C. 

JOHN A. KEMP. He continues to practice law and poli- 
tics in Delaware county, where politics are thicker to the acre 
than any where else in the State. He is high in the Republican 
councils of the county, and has represented it in various State 
and district conventions. He was elected, and strange to say, 
re-elected, Supervisor of the town of Delhi, and during his 
second term was chairman of the Board. " I am free to confess 
that I have hustled for political preferment of higher importance, 
and got left. The dear people were not sufficiently impressed 
with my pulchritude and evident qualifications for the office, 
and too many of them voted for the other fellow." However, 
we all know Kemp's bull-dog pertinacity of purpose, and it is 
pretty safe to predict that he will get there, and that before 
another five years, any '80 lawyer who wants an extra allowance 
will carry his motion into the Third judicial district, and will 



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get all he asks, if not more. While adhering strictly to his 
former political tenets, Kemp is an apostate from Calvin, and now 
rises and falls with the highest of the high Episcopalians. Cal- 
vinism lost much of its attractiveness when the organist and 
singing teacher of the First Presbyterian church at Schenectady 
went off and married another fellow. He has gone " way over" 
and has recently been elected a vestryman of St. John's church, 
in Delhi. " I still revel in single blessedness, sewing buttons 
on my shirts and darning my own socks." Address, Delhi, N. Y. 

WM. B. LANDRETH. While graduating with '8i, Landreth 
shows the good effects of his training with '80, and fortunately 
has few of the qualities of '81. He has steadily and successfully 
adhered to his profession of engineering, and has gained consid- 
erable prominence therein. Was for several years associated in 
business with Fitzgerald, his brother-in-law and former classmate, 
but the partnership is now dissolved. Landreth was city engineer 
of Schenectady from '85 to '87, and superintendent of sewers in 
the latter year. Has lately been in charge of the construction of 
a sewer system at White Plains, N. Y. He is a member of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers, and has written various 
pamphlets, reports, and articles in the line of his profession. Is 
a Republican, Protectionist, Ballot and High License reformer. 
His religious tenets he thus sums up, " My wife is an Episco- 
palian. I generally show up on Easter Sunday with a large 
contribution and a new hat. Two children, both girls." Address, 
Schenectady, N. Y. 

ROBERT J. LANDON. To those who have recently seen 
the Judge, what a satire is the remark made by the Historian in 
the triennial, that " on his upper lip hovers the faint suspicion of 
a mustache." Now it would read, " in the mass of whiskers one 
faintly discerns the outlines of the Judge." 

Those whiskers were the wonder of the Decennial. Some 
thought that from his devotion to music he liked to hear the 
wind whistling through them ; others, that economy allowed them 
to grow, but the commission appointed to trim his beard, out of 
respect for the Judge, allowed them to remain intact when he 
confidentially revealed to them that he wore his whiskers to 



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conceal an aggravated case of umbilical hernia complicated by 
Phlegmasia Dolens. 

Since hanging out his shingle in '83, the Judge has gone on 
in his slow but steady way, practicing " law and economy," with 
evident success in both, for he has taken to himself a wife, and 
bought him a house, two luxuries in which a poor man cannot 
with safety indulge. He was married Nov. 12. 1885, to Mary 
T. Gilmour, of Schenectady, and already has one son, who glories 
in the name of his grandfather, Judson Stuart Landon. The 
Judge's home is always open for wandering sons of '8o, and 
many of the boys have in commencement time enjoyed his open 
hospitality. What more can we say of the Judge ? In his 
moderate way, he is slowly climbing to success, and will some 
day burst on our vision in the high rank his abilities deserve. 
A Republican always, he has attained the honor of kicking to 
pieces a Republican machine and of encouraging the growth of a 
purer quality of politics in Schenectady County. He is a member 
of the Board of Health of Schenectady, and the heir apparent 
for the Supreme Court bench. 

Address, Schenectady, N. Y. 

JAMES S. LAWRENCE. Although Lawrence left us at the 
close of his Sophomore year to complete his course at Cornell, he 
stayed with us long enough to enable him to participate in most of 
the stirring events of that year, and thus to catch the bold and 
enterprising spirit which characterizes the men of '80, and causes 
them to succeed so signally in every calling of life. Thus we find 
Lawrence, immediately after leaving Cornell, seeking his fortune 
in Gunnison County, Colorado, where he has since continued to 
reside. During a portion of the years 1881 and 1882, he acted 
as General Manager of the Coal and Silver properties of the 
Gunnison Improvement Company, and for nearly two years 
succeeding, was general bookkeeper of the First National Bank 
of Gunnison, and also Vice-President and General Manager of 
the Gunnison Smelting Company, while the same was operated 
there. He is now living at Gunnison, the County seat, and 
devoting his entire time to silver mining. 

Although Lawrence states that he has taken no extensive 
voyages or trips of travel, that he has written no books or 



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compromising letters, and that the mantle of glory has not so 
fallen upon him as to obscure his identity, it is a fair inference 
from the fact that he was once City Councilman and Mayor pro 
tern, that he narrowly escaped having greatness thrust upon him. 
He admits having the reputation of being a " fishing crank," and 
states that he is an Episcopalian, a Republican " from 'way back," 
a protectionist and an advocate of high license. 

The most startling portion of Lawrence's autobiographical 
letter is contained in two final confessions — the first, that he is 
still unmarried, and the second, that he is slowly but surely 
getting bald ; and although his reputation for truth and veracity 
is equal to that of the hero of the little hatchet story, his class- 
mates, who remember his manifold " winning ways," will accept 
with many grains of allowance, his statement that his failure to 
get married is due to "lack of consent by other parties." 

Address, Gunnison, Col. 

CLAUDE L. LEGGE. Has taught ever since leaving college; 
for the first six years in the Porter Academy in Charleston, where 
he was himself fitted for college, and then for two years in the 
High School at Summerville, S. C. In November, 1887, he was 
recalled to Charleston, to become vice-principal of the Shaw 
Memorial School, one of the largest public schools in Charleston. 
This position he still holds. He is a member of the Episcopal 
Church, and a " Cleveland Democrat." He was married in 1888, 
and has a fine boy, Lionel, born December 11, 1889. "My 
interest in Old Union is undiminished by time, and I always 
rejoice to hear of the members of dear old '80." 

Address, 11 President street, Charleston, S. C. 

m mmfmum mmaMmanBa&^ mfmmmwwiimmm iii n i m i ii m ill i iihii ii 
* ROBERT T. S. LOWELL. The first of our graduates 
against whose name the fatal asterisk is set. Brilliant, genial, 
loyal to his class, his college and his friends, successful in business 
married to the wife of his choice, there was every thing to make 
life attractive and home happy. He was engaged in the railroad 
business in Chicago, as mentioned in the quinquennial bulletin, 
until his death, after a brief illness, March 17, 1887. Lowell's 
son and namesake was born several months after his death, and 
both mother and child are now living with Professor Lowell, in 

* Deceased. 



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Schenectady. "A classmate never dies." He lives in perpetual 
memory. The following memoir was prepared at the time and 
published by a committee of the Class : 

Whereas, for the first time since our graduation, Almighty God, by His 
inscrutable will, has severed the chain so long unbroken, and removed from our 
number our beloved classmate and friend, Robert T. S. Lowell, Jr. 

Resolved, That we deplore the loss of one whose distinguished talents, 
genial disposition and firm loyalty to class and friends, have left a deep impress 
upon our minds and hearts, and whose career had reflected credit upon himself 
and honor upon the Class. 

That in sadness and in heartfelt sympathy, we desire to suitably express 
our sorrow to the young wife, so soon a widow, to the father, our revered 
instructor of former years, and to the other members of the family of our 
deceased brother. 

That these resolutions be printed and sent to the family of the deceased, 

and be published in the Schenectady papers. 

Joseph D. Craig, 
John V. L. Pruyn, 
Chas. F. Bishop, 
John A. Kemp, 
Fred. T. Rogers, 
March 25, 1887. Committee. 

The following extract from an article in the Albany Journal, 
written by a classmate, leaves little to be said in the way of 
eulogy, and expresses most feelingly the sentiments of the whole 
Class : 

Chiefly through the wishes of his family, he chose Chicago as the field of 
his life-work, and became connected with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 
railroad, one of his brothers being a prominent official in that corporation. 
From a subordinate position, young Lowell rapidly rose until he was placed at 
the head of one of the most important departments of the road, and had entered 
upon a career which already reflected credit upon himself with promise of 
distinction in the future. From his father's family as well as from that of his 
mother, who was a Miss Duane, Mr. Lowell inherited a natural ability much 
above the average. He was an attentive and careful student, and from 
temperament and training, had the power to achieve success in whatever line of 
work he chose to pursue. The many noble traits of his character can be borne 
witness to by one who was his classmate and who sat next to him in his father's 
Latin classes, often reading from the same book. Kindly in disposition and 
courteous to all, with the highest sense of honor and of justice, Mr. Lowell 
was never known to do an improper act nor to speak ill of any one. Nor did 
any one ever speak ill of him. He was held in affectionate esteem by all who 
knew him. His death is the first to break the ranks of his class since gradua- 
tion, and is particularly sad from the fact that he leaves a widow, the bride of 
a few months. 



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WILLIAM THEODORE McCORKLE. Mac successfully 
eluded the most searching scrutiny of our triennial and quin- 
quennial committees, and only the most vigorous detective work 
on the part of this committee has discovered him in his lair. 
He left college for reasons of his own at the end of Freshman 
year, and returned to his home in Greenville, South Carolina. 
In the fall of 1879, the family removed to East Tennessee,whence 
his father had refugeed in the troublous times of 1864. Soon 
afterwards he took a position as agent of the Richmond & 
Danville R. R. Co. at Greenville, S. C. Wearying of this in two 
years, he returned to Tennessee and engaged in farming and 
stock-raising and kept it up with varying success for six years. 
In the spring of 1888 he was induced, by a promising offer, to 
abandon country life and to accept a position in the office of the 
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway, at Knoxville, 
Tenn. " Am not married and have no prospects." It will be 
noticed that he still clings tenaciously to the inevitable white tie. 

Address, E. Tenn., Va. & Ga. Ry. Co., Knoxville, Tenn. 

JAMES M. McMASTER. Mac is no longer " on probity." 
The probity is now on him, and he is the leading lawyer in 
Birmingham, Ala., the " Chicago of the South," to which larger 
arena he moved from Columbia, S. C, in 1887. If we may trust 
his word, and we always did, Mac's matrimonial ventures have 
not met with the same success as his professional. His quin- 
quennial announcement we all remember. Now he confesses : 
" Lately I did come very near succeeding. If the party of my 
ambition had only said ' yes,' I would have proudly exclaimed, 
'You are mine,' and then there would have been a tableau. But 
alas ! Heu me miserum ! The Fates decreed otherwise, and she 
said 'No.' A narrow escape, but I console myself with the 
sweet reflection that the good Lord is saving me along for some 
good woman yet." Hopeful, philosophical, and light-hearted to 
the last — our own little Mac all over ! He is, of course, a Demo- 
crat, and has frequently been the president of political ward 
clubs. While in South Carolina was First Lieutenant in the State 
militia. Is now a director in a large flour mill company in 
Birmingham. Is a Presbyterian, a Democrat, a free-trader, and 
declares for high license. He promised faithfully to attend the 



of 60 




McCoRKLE. 
MUHLFELDER. 



Lowell. 

McMaster. 

Parry. 



Thomfson. 
Noble. 



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Decennial Reunion, but disappointed all the boys by failing to 
show up on the campus. His own grief is expressed with that 
wealth of exuberant diction we all so well remember : " It is a 
matter of profound regret that business matters of great im- 
portance prevent my attending the Reunion of grand old '80, for 
I had impatiently awaited the day when I should again grasp the 
hand and catch the kindly glance of the eye of each and every 
comrade. Remember me to the dear boys, each and every one. 
Tell them that we of '80 are bound together with the golden 
band of love. Sweet memories of the past come over me like a 
rushing tide — the days of buoyant hope, of study and pleasure, 
of poetry and song, of class-room and examination, of love's 
young dream, and all the catalogue of student amenities. How I 
wish I could be present to indulge in mutual reminiscenses which 
we could rehearse to each other only in confidence ! We were 
none of us any too good in college, but there is, even in retrospect, 
a spice in college deviltry and wickedness. But whatever were 
the pleasures, whether midnight carousing or painting parties, 
whether caused by Wiencke's refreshments or the natural 
exuberance of youthful spirits, the earnest hours of work and 
study we now view with satisfaction, and if persisted in by the 
men of '80, we will climb the ladder to the stars. I still hope to 
meet you at Lake George, and hear the pleasures of the night." 
But he didn't meet. 

Address, 200 ij, corner 20th street and Second avenue, 
Birmingham, Ala. 

WM. J. McNULTY. Not heard from, except from the 
following, taken from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, January 29, 
1890 : 

A NEW STREET ENGINEER. 

W. J. McNulty has been appointed engineer of surveys for the Street 
Department. He leaves the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway 
Company to accept this position, having served with that company for two 
years as assistant engineer in charge of maintenance of way. Immediately 
prior to that engagement Mr. McNulty was in charge of construction of new 
branch lines for the Missouri Pacific Railway Company in Kansas. His 
long and varied experience in engineering work will make Mr. McNulty a 
valuable addition to the corps of Street Commissioner Burnet. 



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DAVID MUHLFELDER. We are glad to chronicle that 
during the last five years, Dave has, in at least one respect, grown, 
and that is, bald headed. His nature, too, except where stunted 
by frequent association with other lawyers at the bar, has grown 
better than when he was the bully of S. S. N. College, and bossed 
Rogers and Dougherty around, playing high, low, jack with the 
former, to see who should get the water, and build the fire. By his 
peculiar adeptness in manipulating the cards, he uniformly 
succeeded in sticking Rogers, resulting, of course, in Dougherty's 
getting the water. 

Dave has met with success in Albany, and his business and 
bank account have steadily grown in dimensions since his partner 
died and Dave had the settling of his estate. This proves that 
he fully grasps the capabilities of the law as a profession, and he 
is to-day the banker to whom impecunious '8o boys apply when 
strapped and near Albany. 

In 1887, he hungered for journalistic honors, and was editor 
of the Fair Journal, a daily publication in the interests of a new 
Synagogue in Albany. He has been President of the Adelphi 
Club of Albany for two years, and is a prominent factor in the 
social circles of his city. Dave is not married, and claims that 
the space allowed him on the circular is not large enough to 
contain all his good excuses. 

A Republican in politics, he is not a partisan, but has strong 
inclinations towards Tariff Reform and Prohibition (of making 
any more lawyers). He still plays whist, and occasionally smokes. 

Address, Room 46, Bensen Building, Albany, N. Y. 

EDWARD B. NOBLE. Noble was one of that large number 
of promising men whom it was the misfortune of the Class to lose 
before graduation. Unlike the departure of some of the others, 
however, it seems to have been a voluntary act on his part ; and, 
though the Class was not disposed to pardon desertions from the 
ranks without good cause shown, Noble's subsequent career has 
been such as to atone for the one offense. From the meagre 
account of his life that he has given us, we learn that he entered 
upon a business career after leaving college ; that he was in New 
York city for about one year, and in Amsterdam for about two 
years, and that during the rest of the time he has been in Albany, 



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where he now resides. He was at one time employed by the State 
Insurance Department, and as Assistant Resident Engineer, on the 
West Shore railroad, but is now Cashier for Armour & Co., at 
Albany. In religion, he announces himself a Presbyterian, and 
in politics, a Republican, in favor of both protection and high 
license. 

Noble is one of those courageous men of '8o who has ventured 
to embark on the uncertain sea of matrimony. He began the 
voyage in September, 1888, and in May, 1890, the name of a 
baby boy was added to the passenger list. Davenport possesses 
the inalienable honor of having been the first daddy, and Noble 
seems to have the call on the fleeting and transitory distinction 
of being the last, or rather, the latest daddy, but not having the 
latest press despatches from Scranton and Washington, we are 
unable to announce it as an indubitable fact. 

Address, 74 Division street, Albany, N. Y. 

JOHN E. PARRY. Parry was one of the first of the Class 
who took his degree as a " quituate," having left College in June, 
1877, to enter upon a business career. "Jack," like Artemus 
Ward's kangaroo, was " an amoosin' little cuss," and his genial 
presence was much missed during the three pleasant years of our 
course that remained after his departure. There is a tradition 
that he was immensely popular among the fair maidens of 
" Dorp," and that his failure to return with the prestige of a 
Sophomore caused untold anguish to numerous admirers. But 
that is a sad subject, and we will pass on to the next. After 
" quituating," Jack returned to Sandy Hill, and in March, 1878, 
began to make himself generally useful in the First National Bank 
of that place, and continued there until February, 1879, when he 
accepted the position of bookkeeper in the Glens Falls National 
Bank. That position he retained until December, 188 1, when he 
was made teller in the same institution, which position he still 
holds. During all this time he resided either in Sandy Hill or 
Glens Falls, as fancy or convenience moved him, until October, 
i88o ; when he took up his permanent residence in Glens Falls. 
Jack is a benedict of several years' standing, and reports that his 
home is made happy by the presence of two bright boys. He 
announces himself an Episcopalian, a Republican, a believer in 



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protection on articles that may be produced at home, and an 
advocate of high license. 

It will cause surprise, as well as regret, that Jack has not yet 
" found the glory to cover himself with," but he promises, when 
he does find it, "to make up for lost time, and plaster it on thick." 
We wish him success in finding the glory, and predict that his 
early experience in using "red paint," will enable him to use it 
artistically. 

Address, First National Bank, Glens Falls, N. Y. 

ISAAC de C. PORCHER. " Zike " turns up with the first 
official report in ten years, but denies the Class the pleasure of 
looking upon his decennial lineaments, a pleasure we are loath to 
forego. While his post office address has occasionally changed, 
his geographical position has not, he having continually, since 
leaving us at the end of Freshman year, planted cotton on his 
plantation in St. Johns, Berkeley County, S. C, and has become 
a man of influence in his native State. He has taken to politics, 
Democratic politics, of course, like a duck to water. He says, 
" I am a Democrat of the Calhoun school of politics, believe in 
free trade with incidental protection, and in high license." Since 
1882, Zike has been a delegate to every county convention, and 
four State conventions of his party. He is a member of the 
Farmers' Alliance, and chairman of its Board of Directors for 
Berkeley County. He was a member of the convention which 
nominated Tillman for Governor. " I am not married, and being 
31 years old, probably never will be," — not a necessary sequitur. 
He affiliates with the Protestant Episcopal Church, but is not a 
member. " I would have given any thing to have attended the 
Class reunion, and deeply regret that I was unable to do so. I 
still keep up all my interest in the old College, and am always 
interested in every thing pertaining to her welfare." He is now 
able to locate " Troy " with geographical precision. 

Address, Ophir P. O., Berkeley Co., S. C. 

WALTER PEYRE PORCHER. Our Historian in 1885 
was obliged to chronicle " Posh " as " not heard from, but known 
to be a rising physician in Charleston, S. C." We are happy to 
announce that for the Decennial he has been heard from, and 



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that he has "riz," for he writes that in 1887, while holding the 
office of City Physician, he got into a political brawl, and was 
summarily bounced from his office, and since that time he has 
risen to the dignity, and been enjoying the delights of private 
life as a specialist in diseases of the nose and throat. After 
Porcher graduated in '81 from the Charleston Medical College, 
he served one year as Interne in the City Hospital, and one year 
as Secretary of the Board of Health, and then three years as 
City Physician, or, with the tenacity of the average office holder, 
until he was left. When relegated to private life he soon acquired 
a good practice and an enviable reputation in his special line of 
work. Walter is the originator of a self retaining Palate Retractor, 
which has attracted considerable attention in professional circles, 
and won for him the praise of eminent specialists in his line of 
study. Last year, he spent four months in Germany, as he 
expresses it, in " polling up his specialty." 

He is not married because of "lack of cents," but if that is 
the only reason, he will, of course, soon enter the dual state, for 
it is a well known fact that specialists make a fortune in about 
three years. 

An Episcopalian and a Democrat, a believer in free whiskey, 
and an M. D. Nothing more is needed to afford the Class a pen 
picture of Posh as he is to-day, ten years away from 1880. 

Address, 4 George street, Charleston, S. C. 

JOHN V. L. PRUYN. In 1886, Pruyn was appointed 
aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Hill, with the rank of 
Colonel, and declined re-appointment in 1889. In 1887, he was 
appointed a member of the Albany City Board of Health, but 
became ineligible for longer service on the Board on account of his 
election in May, 1888, as an Alderman-at-large for the City of 
Albany. So far as the Committee are able to discover, the 
Colonel is the only '80 man who has reached the Aldermanic 
level. This office he held for two years. While a member of 
the Albany Common Council, he was a member of the Law 
Committee, the Committees on Public Buildings and on Public 
Celebrations and Entertainments, and Chairman of the Committee 
on Academies and Schools, and of the Committee on Relations 
of City and County. 



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In 1881, he was made a Trustee of the Albany Homoeopathic 
Hospital. From 1880 to 1890 he was a Director of the Albany- 
City National Bank, and is now a Trustee of St. Stephen's College 
at Annandale, N. Y. He is a member of the Fort Orange Club 
of Albany, the Albany Club, the Albany Institute, the University 
and Reform Clubs of New York city, the Holland Society, the 
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and the Pipe 
Roll Society of England. He is a life member of the St. Nicholas 
Society and of the Sons of the Revolution, and an Honorary 
member of the Troy Citizens Corps. He is unmarried, and is a 
practicing lawyer, with an office at 25 North Pearl street, Albany. 

He is an Episcopalian, while his political beliefs and aspirations 
are all embodied and summed up in the famous declaration of 
his chief, " I am a Democrat." 

Address, No. 13 (New No. 19) Elk street, Albany, N. Y. 

WM. de C. RAVENEL. Always a favorite with his class- 
mates, Rav. has recently established himself still more firmly in 
the affections of those who attended the recent reunion. Most of 
them he had not seen in twelve years. For five years after leaving 
us, in '78, he was engaged in planting rice on Cooper River, in 
South Carolina. In 1884 he became an attache of the U. S. Fish 
Commission, and for two years conducted an experimental oyster 
station at Ridge, St. Mary's Co., Md. For the last three years 
has been in charge of a shad hatchery station at Havre de Grace, 
Md., besides investigating the fisheries of the South Atlantic 
coast, and collecting and compiling fishery statistics all along the 
coast, from Florida to Virginia, during the winter months, mak- 
ing official returns to the Department, which have been published 
in its reports. Rav. is a Democrat, of course, " but not one of 
the Dave Hill stripe," and eloquently " cusses out " the " in- 
iquitous Republican tariff, which taxes every thing used in the 
production of a plantation and nothing that the planter can sell." 
He is married and has had four children, three of whom survive. 

Address, U. S. Fish Commission, Washington, D. C. 

BENJAMIN H. RIPTON. The Professor has clung pretty 
consistently to the teaching profession for the last ten years, after 
having tried book-keeping for two years previous. For four 




of<30 




Rogers. 
Slingerland. 



Pruyn. 
Ripton. 
Sadler. 



W. P. Porcher. 
Ravenel. 



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years he ran the Whitestown seminary for the perquisites. Then 
he went to Mineville, up in the Adirondacks, and taught there 
until threatened with becoming a Methodist deacon, which 
impending honor drove him back to the Mohawk water level. 
Then the old College called him back and he responded with 
joyfulness and alacrity. He was ambitious to occupy the chair 
of Latin, but unfortunately he had assisted at the cremation of 
the chair of Latin in a midnight foray eight years before, and so 
was made Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. This was in 1886. 
A year later he was made full professor of mathematics, and is 
now the worthy successor of Jackson, Price and Chaplin in that 
honorable professorship. Ripton is now anxiously awaiting the 
demise of Perk, so as to get the latter's house on the campus, 
having long since despaired of getting Whitey's or Jack Foster's. 
He has been repeatedly honored by his alma mater, having 
received his A. B. in 1883, Phi Beta Kappa in 1886, and A. M. in 
1887. He is a Methodist and a Democrat, favors a low tariff 
and Prohibition. He provided the Class at the Reunion with a 
bushel of tin horns which he had confiscated from the Fresh- 
men, and his lips were glued to one of them pretty constantly 
during our sojourn at Lake George. It will be noticed he could 
not part with it even long enough to have his picture taken with 
the other Profs. Last year he was kept by poor health from per- 
forming his college duties, but his Lake George visit with the 
boys of '80 put new life and vigor in his bones and effectually 
healed the frightful fissure, the mention of which so stirred the 
depths of Godfrey's sympathetic heart. He is now in the best 
possible shape to wrestle with the Freshman and Sophomore 
intellects. 

Address (until after Perk's ascension), 14 Nott Terrace, 
Schenectady, N. Y. 

FRED T. ROGERS. Specialist in diseases of the eye 
and ear, 538 Broad street, Providence, R. I. The minority 
of the committee, Bishop and Alexander, decided to give the 
doctor this flat-footed free ad. rather than have a dozen or more 
covertly insinuated through the whole texture of this work. His 
advertising dodges are unique and multifarious. Within a week 
after he opened his office in Providence, several dozen blinking, 



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bandaged " patients " a day came along Broad street on the 
street cars, and when nearing 538 each would ask the conductor 
in a loud voice, " Let me off to see Dr. Rogers, the celebrated 
eye doctor." The patients were ushered in the front door 
and out the back, until the conductors got on to his racket 
and other devices had to be substituted. Then he presented 
to the Y. M. C. A. a fine flag which he had appropriated in 
Westerly as president of the Young Men's Republican Club, and 
by his generosity secured a handsome notice in the Providence 
papers. Later on, under pretense of giving an account of the 
Lake George trip, he suborned an unsuspicious Telegram reporter 
to work in another column notice. By all these methods and a 
liberal use of red paint on the fences of Rhode Island, he has 
worked up a practice in six months which would have satisfied 
any but an '8o doctor after six years. 

After eight years' steady practice in Westerly, he sold out 
his practice and goodwill, in October, 1889, and took up ex- 
clusively the specialty which he had been studying and to some 
extent practicing for years. After a special course in New York 
and a three months' visit to the Bahamas early this year, he 
opened his office in Providence in May last. Besides a com- 
fortable private practice he has lately received the appointment 
of assistant surgeon to the department of the eye and ear in the 
Rhode Island Hospital, at Providence. 

Outside of his profession he has dabbled somewhat in politics 
and literature. He was for some years president of the Young 
Men's Republican Club of Westerly, one of the strongest clubs 
of the State. He was a delegate-at-large for Rhode Island at the 
National Republican Convention in 1888 and was one of the 
shouters who tried to stampede the convention to Blaine. In 
1889 he was president of the Board of Trustees of the Westerly 
public schools. He is a member of the R. I. Medical Society 
and for seven years has been secretary of the Washington County 
Medical Society, which he was largely instrumental in organizing. 
He has written several professional articles and reports for 
medical journals, and in 1889 contributed to the History of 
Washington County (R. I.), an elaborate article on the history of 
the profession in that county, with biographies of the most suc- 
cessful practitioners, including, of course, his own. On October 



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6th last, he read a paper before the Providence Medical Society on 
"The Relation of Eye Strain to Functional Nervous Diseases," 
which attracted great attention and was quoted in the New York, 
Providence and other newspapers. He has a crank notion that 
all nervous diseases are properly ascribable to affections of the 
eye. 

In 1883, Rogers was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta 
Kappa. His greatest honor, however, and the height of his 
wildest ambition, was achieved when he was last June elected 
President of '80 for the decade which is to wind up the 19th 
century. In 1887, he was elected assistant-surgeon of the First 
Regiment, R. I. Militia, with the rank of 1st Lieutenant, and 
was this year elected to the same office and rank in the First 
Light Infantry Regiment of Providence, the finest military organ- 
ization in the State. He sticks up for high license (except when 
away from home), but " is open to conviction on the tariff." He 
has two boys, named after Judge and Aleck, respectively, and 
11 expects to live long enough to go through the Class for names 
down to Sweet." He is still addicted to the weed and the tooth- 
pick, but the boys of '80 can condone those and all other failings 
after his splendid chapel speech in their behalf last June, admit- 
tedly the best and most appropriate speech ever gotten off on 
any similar occasion. 

PHILIP J. RYAN. After many hair-breadth escapes on the 
high seas in the Government service, as an Annapolis cadet, Ryan 
has finally settled down in New York. He was a member of the 
Greely Relief Expedition to the Arctic seas, on the steamship 
"Yantic," and subsequently cruised on the " Shenandoah " and 
"Wachuset," to the west coast of Africa and the east and west 
coasts of South America. In 1885, he abandoned the Govern- 
ment service, and his class have a considerable claim in the 
United States courts for back pay from Uncle Sam. For nearly 
all the five years subsequent to '85, he has been the Assistant to 
the Superintendent of Construction in the United States Life- 
saving stations, with an office at 24 State street, New York. He 
has grown portly, in spite of his addiction to the cigarette. He 
still bears allegiance to the Church of Rome, is still a Democrat, 
but (hear ye, all his old-time cronies) he is now in favor of high 



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license. His house address is 55 West 33d street, New York, but 
he leaves no family there when he goes to his office. 

WILLIAM H. SADLER. Sadler takes the second prize in 
the whiskers match, and if you doubt it, look at his picture which 
adorns the Bulletin, and after gazing, can you question his 
statement that he " lived in Mandan, N. D., six months, in 
Montana, one and a half years." Nowhere else but in the wild 
and woolly West can such whiskers be found. 

Sadler has followed civil engineering during the whole time 
since leaving college, and besides his stay in the far West, has 
been located six months in Sandy Creek, N. Y., and five years 
in Minneapolis, Minn. Then he was for a year in Schenectady, 
but a year ago he went to Scranton, Penn., as Assistant Engineer 
on the Ontario, Carbondale and Scranton R. R. When his work 
on that road was finished, he entered into a partnership with A. 
B. Dunning, Jr., County Surveyor in Scranton, and under the 
firm name of Dunning & Sadler, propose to do all kinds of civil, 
sanitary and mining engineering. The Scranton Times, in its 
issue of June n, 1890, speaks of him as follows : " Mr. Sadler is 
a thoroughly educated engineer, and has had much experience in 
bridge building, railroading and other intricate work in his line, 
and we bespeak for the new firm a hearty support from those in 
want of expert engineering." He is now locating a railroad line 
from Scranton to Stroudsburg, fifty-five miles. Sadler was mar- 
ried October 25th, 1882, to Alice A. Beaumont, of Schenectady, 
N. Y., and has had two children, one, however, dying soon after 
its birth. He is in favor of high license, a Republican, and a 
Presbyterian, not a surprising condition of things when you 
know Sadler. 

Address, 2067 North Main avenue, Scranton, Pa. 

GEORGE HENRY SLINGERLAND. Slingerland ! What 
a power of magic in that name ! As it strikes the tympanum 
with the force of a Greek hexameter, how much of Freshman 
tribulation and Sophomore glory does it recall ! The kidnapping 
of McCorkle, the midnight raids upon the Freshmen, and the 
all-night forages for provisions, the paintings of the Idol, the 
descent on '8i's illuminations, the decoration of the town on the 



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night before St. Patrick's Day, which so enraged the citizens, the 
rifling of the armory, and the cremation of Bourdon, which called 
forth his matchless invocation to the Infernal Deities — the most 
remarkable specimen of profane literature ever evolved from 
human brain ! All these, and many other thrilling events of our 
College days, come sweeping back over us with the reverberating 
echoes of that euphonious name. Nor can we ever forget that 
long ulster, in which Sling, girded himself, worn regardlessly of 
the temperature, which enveloped in its voluminous folds so 
much of abstruse knowledge and classic lore, and which was the 
hidden source of inspiration from which were drawn so many 
" original " translations of Horace, yEschylus, and other ancient 
authors. But, alas ! he was too gifted to remain long with us. 
He very soon attracted the attention of the Faculty, who, 
perceiving that he needed a wider field for the exercise of his 
talents, sent him, ere his course was half run, as a missionary, to 
spread the fame of his alma water, and to light the torch of 
learning on the prairies of the wild and woolly West. 

Remembering that we were always glad to give him the floor 
in the good old days, if only to "make a few gestures," we will 
now let him, so far as the proprieties of cold type allow, tell the 
story of his own career, since he departed from us in a blaze of 
Sophomoric glory, and in his own picturesque language. After 
stating that he has always lived at Augusta, Illinois, since leaving 
College, and that he made a trip to California in 1883, and to 
New York in 1889, he proceeds, in reference to his occupation, 
as follows : " I am still experimenting with the stubborn glebe. 
My pumpkins bring me wealth in abundance. I take the pastry 
for honesty, sobriety and virtue. Charity and hospitality are 
the grand characteristics of my profession. To feed the hungry, 
clothe the naked, and bind up the wounds of the afflicted, 
consume all the leisure moments I have. I am very, very happy ; 
but how much fun I have missed ! " In reference to the offices 
he has held, etc., he continues, as follows : " Have nothing to 
report under this head except a single term as Pound-master, 
which office I exalted to a position of honor and responsibility. 
I am still hoping that, like Cincinnatus of old, who was always 
conveniently near when wanted, my countrymen will yet seek 
me out and merit receive its full and just reward. Would not 



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refuse the office of President of United States if my friends 
forced it upon me." His religious and political tenets, and his 
views on the temperance question are thus set forth : " I belong 
to the Home Baptists. Am Republican on all occasions. Have 
got it bad. Favor protection, and give it the benefit of every 
doubt. Am for prohibition when there is no whiskey to be had ; 
at all other times, for free whiskey." In reference to his domestic 
relations, he says: "I am married, January 13th, 1885, at 6 
o'clock a. m., before breakfast. No children yet, but still have 
hopes of perpetuating the tribe of Slingerland. Will adopt an 
orphan or two in case the hope aforesaid should fail." In the 
light of these admissions, how inane and presumptuous was 
Sling's historic scheme for inculcating original civilization of the 
Slingerland type on the Isle of Madagascar ! Thus he ruminates : 

" Since leaving College — alas ! how brief my stay ! — I have 
become of a serious and religious turn. My knees are calloused 
with secret prayer and repentance." This last information will 
not surprise any one who remembers the brilliant examination 
once passed by him in the Westminster Catechism. Being asked 
" What was the chief end of man ? " he replied : " The one that 
has the head on, of course." As an interesting phenomenon 
connected with his religious experience, it should be mentioned 
that as the years increase, a gathering whiteness seems to be 
gradually overspreading his once raven locks. The skeptical will 
probably say that this is nothing but the finger-mark of time ; but 
we, who still cling to our ancient faith in the miraculous and the 
supernatural, believe that his head has been encircled by a halo 
as a reward for his fervent piety and his virtuous life. His 
Madagascar scheme has been definitely and permanently aban- 
doned. " It is with tears of sorrow and regret that I have to say 
I can be with you at the Reunion only in spirit. I would give 
ten years of my useful and beneficent life to be with you at the 
time. At the mere thought, my suspenders twitch with joy like 
a rabbit's mouth on a cabbage leaf. Give my best regards to all 
the bully boys of '80." 

Address, Augusta, 111. 

WRIGHT J. SWEET. Poor Sweet ! With a mind never 
well balanced, abnormally developed in certain directions, 



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especially in the higher and most intricate mathematics, he was 
always lacking in the every day qualities which make for success. 
He followed his mathematical bent for a few years, being at one 
time computer in the National Observatory in Washington, and 
later doing some engineering work in southern Ohio. There, 
some time in '84, what he imagined to be the Divine call struck 
him, and he dropped his work and went about the country 
preaching as an evangelist, collecting crowds in school-houses, 
abandoned churches, on the streets, or wherever he could collect 
a crowd, passing the hat for revenue, and a very poor living he 
made. In 1885, his actions became so irrational, that on Septem- 
ber 10 he was committed by his friends to the Cleveland Asylum 
for the Insane, where he is still confined. On May 9th last, Dr. 
Strong, the Superintendent, wrote : " When he first came to us 
his principal delusion was that the Lord had called him to preach 
the Gospel, and preach he must. During his first year here he 
would occasionally have a maniacal outbreak, with a tendency to 
more or less violence. He has now gradually degenerated into 
a condition of dementia, which I fear will prove permanent." 

On September 20, Dr. Strong again wrote : " There is 
nothing new to communicate concerning the case of Mr. Sweet. 
There has been no apparent change in his mental condition 
during the last three years. I regard his case as one of chronic, 
hopeless dementia. He is in fair physical condition, but in view 
of the permanent brain blight that has come upon him, he doubt- 
less will have, so long as he may live, scarcely more than a mere 
vegetative existence." 

HENRY T. THOMPSON. The Major's presence at our 
Reunion, after a separation of twelve years, was one of the 
pleasantest features of the anniversary. While in camp during 
the two following weeks, he was, when awake, the life and at 
times the terror of the party. The latter, however, only when 
he emitted those hair-lifting rebel yells, or when he paused, in 
the discussion of South Carolina politics, to open his repertory 
of Southern tales of boot-filling blood. " Thompy " combines 
the functions of the law office and the editorial sanctum, being 
a member of the law firm of Dargan & Thompson, and the editor 
of the Darlington (S. C.) News. He taught, for some years 



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after leaving college, in the Darlington Male Academy and in the 
South Carolina Military Academy at Charleston, and was then 
his father's private secretary for three years during the latter's 
term as Governor. Three years ago he moved back to Darlington 
to assume charge of the News, as editor and proprietor, and there 
also began the practice of law. He has also attained military 
distinction, being Adjutant-General of the Third Brigade, S. C. 
Volunteer Corps, with the rank of Major. In the order of 
Knights of Pythias he has achieved the highest rank, being 
Grand Chancellor for the jurisdiction of South Carolina. He 
and his paper are " Democratic to the backbone," and both are 
influential factors in the political situation at the South. He 
opposed vigorously the nomination of the Farmers' Alliance 
candidate for Governor, but after the nomination fell into line 
rather than help disrupt the party. He is an Episcopalian, 
believes in free trade and high license, with incidental protection 
for " mountain dew." He has two daughters, having lost his 
only boy and namesake when a few months old. Lest any be 
misled by the malicious utterances of his disesteemed Southern 
contemporaries, in the columns of some of which we notice 
pointed and insulting allusions to " little tin Majors," and " little 
pigmie 6-inch editors," be it remarked here and now that 
Thompy stands 5 feet 8-| in his boots, whether full or empty of 
gore, and can whip any officer of his rank or upwards in South 
Carolina. It was only the habit he had of wearing Dave 
Muhlfelder's coat which gave the crowd in camp a minimized 
conception of his physical proportions. 
Address, Darlington, S. C. 

LUCAS GROVE TUTTLE. Despite the atrocious senti- 
ments it flaunts, Tuttle's reply to our modest circular is so 
beautifully lifelike that our feeble efforts to condense it would 
ruin its chasteness and simplicity. So here it is : 

"Answering your catechism, I have only to say that, since 
leaving college, I have led a most disgustingly quiet and uneventful 
life, and not even a drunk and a night in the station house, to 
which I might look back with pleasure. Before leaving College I 
accepted an engagement as teacher in the Troy Business College, 
not Troy, the home of Helen The Beautiful (as Zike Porcher 



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will please note); but Troy, the home of John Morrissey, The 
Mighty, and Paddy Ryan, the Great. I have been teaching here 
ever since ; although I do not expect to remain another year. 

" You ask in what manner I have covered myself with glory. 
I reply : ' Not a cover,' unless the fact that I pay my board bills 
when I am obliged to and never get trusted at the tailor's for a 
second suit of clothes — I mean at the same tailor's ; unless, as I 
said, these facts redound to my glory, I must admit myself to be 
in a state of utter ingloriousness. 

" My parents are Methodists. 

" I have always voted the Republican ticket. At present, how- 
ever, I can hardly endorse all the Republican doctrines on the 
tariff question. I am like a great many others ; I want a pro- 
hibitory tariff on my own industry and free trade for everybody's 
else. 

"Am I married ? I am not ! I fear married life would be too 
exciting. You see, I am troubled with heart disease and the 
doctor has cautioned me to avoid all exciting topics and situations, 
and I fear that if I were married, I should be unable, at all times, 
to do this. The sad fate recently of a young man in Wisconsin, 
whose heart, on his wedding night, stopped beating forever, just 
after he had retired and was about to kiss his young wife, has 
been a solemn warning to me. 

" To be sure ! I know something of Hobbs. I think I can 
tell you just where you can find him. It is about twelve years 
since I saw him. The Class of '8o — long may its banner wave — 
had just been dismissed from some recitation in ' No. 4 ;' ' Poppy' 
Lowell was quoting Latin to a class in his room ; it was a warm 
day and the window of the Latin room was open ; a number of 
hats were lying on the window sill. There you have the scene. 
Enter dramatis personam, consisting of Hobbs as star, supported 
by several unregenerate and wicked classmates. Hobbs crawls 
under the window and, reaching up, purloins a hat. He very 
carefully and laboriously fills it with powdered shale from the 
roadway, and, giving the tip to his co-conspirators to disappear, 
he is about to fire the hat and shale through the window upon 
the heads of the devotees inside. I say he is about to do it ; I 
did not wait to see him chuck the hat, as I had urgent business 
in other parts just at that time. You will probably find him 



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there this morning, just in the act of throwing the hat ; at least I 
can see him, and I have every reason to think that you can. 

"I shall certainly be at the Decennial Reunion on the 
campus, June 24th, 1890, if I can make satisfactory arrangements 
with the Sheriff at that time." 

TALCOTT C. VAN SANTVOORD. Van's delightful phra- 
seology is a boon to the editors. Not to publish his report entire 
would be a distinct loss to classical literature. 

" There has ever been an uninterrupted sameness about my 
domicil. I was ushered into this vale of woe in the house in 
which I now, and always have lived, excepting when weaned from 
it by a temporary residence in Schenectady. 

" During the past ten years my voyages have been limited to 
an occasional trip to Brooklyn and Jersey City, and flying jaunts to 
Canada, Washington, Chicago, Cleveland, and a few other places 
in the West and South. 

" My present occupation is that of paying teller of the Lincoln 
National Bank in New York city, in which institution I have been 
a number of years. My only other occupation was a brief experi- 
ence in the unholy precincts of Wall street, when just out of 
college. 

" Glory has not crowned me with its laurel wreaths or strewn 
honors in my path. A few years ago I had the pleasure to be 
President of the Gambrinus Quartette, an organization named 
after the Pierian God of Music, the object of this club being the 
encouragement and cultivation of part singing, as well as a whole- 
some regard for those things that afford strength and vibrant tone 
to the vocal chords as well as joy to the thirsty soul. This asso- 
ciation has, alas, sung its swan's song and become an Autumn 
leaf. Marriage, the wear of the fang of time on the voice, business 
cares, and dyspepsia have tolled its knell. 

" I am of the stern degree of piety that I was ten years ago, and 
was last year asked to address the Sunday school of the largest 
Presbyterian church in Cleveland. (Did he accept ? — Eds.) 

" In politics I am mildly a Democrat, /*. <?., I am opposed to 
Tammany Hall statesmanship for revenue only. 

" Free trade, high license, and good whiskey in moderation, 
well diluted, are gaily embroidered in my platform. 



* ONION 




<3 




Ryan. 


Van Santvoord. 


TUTTLE. 


Vincent. 




V0S3URGH 



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"It is my aim to glide down life's stream with the least fric- 
tion possible and the greatest harmony attainable. If I alone 
paddle the canoe the voyage may be a solitary one, but I do the 
paddling and I go where I will. Statistics show that ninety per 
cent, of business ventures are not successes, and if these figures 
apply to matrimony, no true philosopher, after reaching the age 
of discretion, will tempt fate. I have contributed my little mite, 
nuptially speaking, by acting as usher for a number of friends 
who had grown wearied of bachelor's freedom, and that has been 
my nearest approach to a state of dual blessedness." 

Van's genial presence was sadly missed at the Reunion, where 
he had promised to appear and respond to his favorite toast, 
" The Dear Girls." Being prevented at the last moment, he sent 
instead, the following, which he declared to be poetry, and 
demanded that it be read at the banquet. It was read. 

THE COLLEGE WIDOW. 

" How dear to my heart is the girl I remember, 

When at Union I met her and loved her so well ; 
How eternal our vows, our caresses how tender, 

When I was a Sophomore, and she was a belle. 
Now I'm hoary and gray, and the years have flown by me, 

And their number is greater than I care to tell ; 
Yet she holds the fort at the bully old college, 

And ropes in my offspring — a callow young swell, 
Who inherits my taste for that siren immortal, 

That maiden perennial — remembered so well." 

Van hangs up his hat at No. 10 West nth street, New York. 

EDGAR L. VINCENT. After a variegated career in the 
public service and in newspaperdom, Vincent has soberly settled 
down to literature and farming. He has at various times been 
editor of the Olean Times, Waverly Advocate, Binghamton 
Republican and Hartford Journal, and in the Pension department 
of the government occupied positions from a clerkship up to 
Special Examiner, and as such we left him at Springfield, 111., in 
1885. In 1887, his official head fell into the basket for " offensive 
partisanship," but he holds an appointment under the present 
administration, which authorizes him to prosecute pension claims, 
and this forms a considerable part of his present employment. 



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Last year he purchased a fine farm in the outskirts of the village 
of Maine, Broome Co., where he mingles agriculture with his 
other employments, with a result of better health than at any 
time since leaving college. He has still leisure for cultivating his 
literary tastes, and is a frequent contributor to current literature, 
mostly in the way of short stories. One of his stories, whose plot 
was laid in the Bradford oil fields, entitled, "How John Carden 
Struck Oil," took the $500 prize offered by the Chicago Current. 
Another popular story, " The Devil's Lane," was printed by a 
newspaper syndicate, and republished all over the country. 
Besides the Current, Vincent is a frequent contributor to Once a 
Week, Texas Si/tings, Little Ones, and other periodicals. Is a 
Congregationalist, a " Republican to the back bone," and favors 
protection, high license, and the Federal election bill. He 
proclaims a general and cordial invitation to all the boys to stop 
off at " Vincent Place," and assures them that the Maine where 
he lives is not the place where prohibition is inculcated or 
enforced. 

MILES W. VOSBURGH. Probably no member of the Class 
of '80 — with possibly a single exception — did more, while he was 
in College, to make the outside world aware of the presence 
of the Class, than did the subject of this sketch. The ambition 
of others might be gratified by winning "ten-spots " in the class- 
room, or by gathering " Olympic dust " on the Campus, or in the 
gymnasium; but not so with " Vozzy." With that intuition, which 
invariably accompanies genius, he perceived that nature had 
designed him for a full band, and so well did he perform the part 
which nature had assigned to him, that, from the beginning to 
the end of his College course, the breezes that blew over College 
Hill were vocal with the strains from his melodious pipe. From 
his seat on " The Terrace," he constantly emitted such a variety 
of sounds, that one unfamiliar with " Vozzy's " many virtues and 
sterling qualities, might easily have gotten the impression that he 
was vox, et praeterea nihil ; but his classmates knew that making 
a noise was not his only forte, and consequently always expected 
great things of him. In this they do not seem to have been 
disappointed, for, like most of the other members of the Class, 
Vosburgh appears to have made a success of life. He has lived 



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in Albany ever since his graduation, and, after being a book- 
keeper for four years, he became associated with his brother as 
a fire insurance and steamship agent, in which business he still 
continues. He has found leisure for a trip to Europe, and has 
also traveled through the Southern States ; but, unfortunately 
for his contemporaries as well as for posterity, he has written no 
narrative of his travels. The field of politics he claims to have 
abandoned to Craig and Muhlfelder, and that of society to Pruyn. 
That he likes good fellowship, however, is proved by the fact that 
he is a member of the Holland Society of New York, and of the 
Fort Orange Club of Albany. His religious and political affilia- 
tions are such as would naturally be expected of a person of his 
conservative antecedents — that is to say, he is a Presbyterian and 
a Republican, and is in favor of protection and of high license. 
Although it is a matter of the keenest regret among Vosburgh's 
friends, that a person so eligible is still a bachelor, it will not 
surprise them to learn that he pleads modesty as an excuse. The 
fact that he is sporting a beard of luxuriant growth and fashion- 
able cut, however, has given rise to a suspicion that he has serious 
designs on the feminine heart, and that interesting developments 
may be expected before 1900. 

Address, Box 218, Albany, N. Y., or 221 Broadway. 

EDWARD W. WATKINS. Has spent the years intervening 
since our last bulletin, and since his leaving college in the pursuit 
of his usual avocations. Has " studied medicine, architecture 
and law," but does not indicate upon which his intellect is just 
now concentrated. Years leave no traces upon face or form, and 
his finely chiselled features and beatific smile are unobscured by 
moustache or beard. He is unmarried, but lives a peaceful, calm 
and untroubled existence, undistracted by the cares and troubles 
of life which have made many of us gray and bald-headed before 
our time. Every indication inevitably points to Watkins as the 
last survivor of the Class of '80. He declares himself to be a 
" Mugwump," and favors free trade. 

Address, Schenectady, N. Y. 



OUR REUNION. 



" Of all sad words of tongue or pe?i, 
The saddest are these — The time has been." 

— Dougherty. 

These affecting words of '8o's inspired poet have for those of 
us who attended the Decennial Reunion a deep significance. The 
lime to which we had looked forward for months in anticipation 
of its pleasures, the time which we enjoyed so much while it lasted, 
the time which extended from Schenectady to Lake George and 
included Ticonderoga, has been, and only now in retrospect can 
we live over the blissful days of Eighty's decennial. 

On Monday, the twenty-third of June, the boys began to 
arrive in Schenectady, although Rogers and Sadler showed their 
beauteous forms in Dorp on the Saturday previous, and it is 
reported that Rogers was only kept from starting for the Reunion 
on June ist, by the lack of capital and the fear that Judge would 
not board him for so long. As each train came in, the constantly 
growing crowd of boys watched eagerly for new comers, and in 
the grasp of hands and cordial greetings gained new inspiration 
and greater enthusiasm for the occasion. There were present at 
the whole or during some part of the proceedings, the following 
members of the Class : Alexander, Anable, Anderson, Ballart, 
Bishop, Craig, Crane, Davenport, Dougherty, Ely, Gadsden, 
Godfrey, Ickler, Kemp, Landon, Muhlfelder, Noble, Parry, 
Ravenel, Ripton, Rogers, Ryan, Sadler, Thompson, Tuttle, 
Vosburgh and Watkins. Bronk, Ingram, McMaster and Van 
Santvoord had made every arrangement to be with us, but were 
detained at the last moment, and sent despatches couched in 
language of the deepest, and, we may well believe, sincerest 
regret. Pruyn was away from Albany and could not join us, but 
also sent fraternal greetings. Ben was so busy clawing over some 
bottled arachnidae at the Smithsonian that the Government and 
his three babies could not spare him. Benjamin was in Europe. 
Slingerland's arduous duties as pound-master kept him in Augusta, 



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much to his sorrow and our loss. Gibson was at an Adirondack 
sanitarium, and could not safely leave, and Sweet was locked up. 
But the absent were with us in spirit and were not forgotten. 

" Our thoughts are still mingled, wherever we meet, 
For those we remember with those that we greet." 

When Alumni day dawned we had of our whole number on 
the Class list twenty-five who assembled in Power's Memorial 
Hall for our Class meeting, and for fear that some might miss the 
place of meeting, there had been placed over the entrance an 
enormous white banner, bearing the inscription in garnet letters, 



'8o. 

UNION. 
HIKAH ! 



The President, Robert C. Alexander, called the Class to order 
with a few felicitous remarks, which were evidently a bid for 
re-nomination, and when the election of officers for the ensuing 
decade was called for, the boys, willing to gratify his snide 
ambition for office, re-nominated and re-elected him as President, 
but when he found he could have it, he did not want it, and 
declined the honor. With Aleck out of the race, party feeling 
ran high, and the wire pulling to escape the nomination was 
terrific. After most of the Class had declined the position, those 
who had not had a chance to decline were allowed to fill the 
offices as follows : 



President, 

Vice-President, 

Secretary, 

Treasurer, 

Historian, 

Poet, 



Dr. F. T. Rogers, 
F. P. S. Crane, 
Prof. B. H. Ripton, 
A. H. Dougherty, 
R. J. Landon, 



Providence, R. I. 
Middletown, N. Y. 
Union College. 
Albany, N. Y. 
Schenectady, N. Y. 



Maj. Henry T. Thompson, Darlington, S. C. 



The newly elected President then took the chair, and in 
response to the calls for a speech said, that while he appreciated 
deeply the honor, and was grateful for the sense of confidence it 
conferred, he was most pleased because to him fell the honor of 
voicing the thanks of the Class to the retiring President for all that 



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he had done to make the Reunion a success. Rogers then, on 
behalf of the Class, presented to Alexander a gold watch, chain 
and charm, which he said bore with it the love and best wishes 
of every member of the Class of '8o. 

The charm is an exact fac-simile in gold of the charming beast 
which adorns the College campus, and whose portrait appears in 
this book, in all its idol beauty. In presenting it the President 
remarked that it was pure metal, and warranted not to change 
color. This, it was discovered on the following day, was a witti- 
cism, weak, but painfully wrought. Alexander was completely 
taken by surprise, and it was with difficulty that he could express 
his thanks for the gift, and amidst the general expressions of good 
will to the recipient, the meeting adjourned. 

At ten o'clock the boys attended the Alumni Meeting, which 
was an unusually large and interesting one, inasmuch as the long 
eulogies on deceased members were omitted and only the repre- 
sentatives of the Decennial Classes were called on to speak. 

When '8o's turn came, Rogers was lifted to his feet by a 
tremendous cheer for '8o, and spoke briefly of our triumphs in 
the world and our illustrious sons. Afterwards, at the Alumni 
banquet in Memorial Hall, Craig spoke eloquently for Union and 
'8o. In the ball game between the Alumni and the " Varsity" 
nines, Rogers played second base, covering the Class with glory 
and himself with dirt, and then '8o's share in the general rejoicing 
was done, and we began to prepare for our own specific jubilee. 

The Decennial banquet was to be held at the Edison Hotel, 
in Schenectady, at 7:30 p. m.. At 5:37, however, Kemp and 
Bishop were seen hanging about the dining-room door, and 
the public knew that preparations were begun. Time sped on, 
stomachs grew faint and dry, but no supper. In response to 
repeated demands for bread, the distracted landlord replied that 
the water main had burst and there was no water in the hotel, 
but why there should have been any great need of water for '8o's 
supper was a mystery. No one was asking for water save Thompy, 
and his thirst is congenital. 

At 9 p. m. it was seriously debated whether the Class had not 
better adjourn to the Hotel Wiencke and dine upon his regular 
bill of fare, but Tuttle and Vosburgh had conscientious scruples 
against the place, and so we waited, and finally the banquet was 
ready. 



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The dining-room was tastily decorated, the table sparkled 
with cut-glass and new silver, the hotel having been opened only 
three days before, and there on the wall was the ubiquitous 

*8o. UNION. HIKAH! 

With Craig as Toastmaster, and the President and ex-President 
on either side of him, the boys attacked the following 



♦ ♦ Menu ♦ ♦ 

LITTLE NECK CLAMS. 
POTAGE. 

Puree of Fowl a la Printanier. 

HORS D'CEUVRES. 

Olives. Chow Chow. 

POISSON. 

Filet de Sole au Gratin, Parisienne. 

ENTREES. 

Filet de Boeuf, Sauce Champignons. 
Petits Pois Parisienne. 

ROTI. 

Turkey, Cranberry Sauce. 
Pommes de Terre Hollandaise. 

LEGUMES. 

Croquettes de Pommes. 

SALADE. 

Lobster. 

DESSERT. 

Plum Pudding. 
Vanilla Ice Cream. Nuts. Malaga Raisins. 
- Oranges. Cafe. 
Cigars. 

It is unnecessary to dilate upon the supper, those who enjoyed 
it can in memory live over its pleasures, those who missed it can 
kick themselves in sheer desperation that the time will never 
occur again. 



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Supper over, Craig, who rivals Chauncey M. Depew as an 
after-dinner speaker, read the toasts, and with witty stories and 
happy hits, called for the responses as follows : 

♦ ♦ Roasts ♦ ♦ 

THE CLASS OF '80, Rogers 

" The assembled souls of all that men hold wise." 

'80 IN THE PULPIT, . . . . Drunk in silence 

" Have we no ministers among us ? 
Then let us thank the Lord." 

'80 IN THE FACULTY, Ripton 

D, ^xerXios UaidayoDyos 7 Oijxoi ! 

'80 AT THE BAR, Bishop 

" The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." 

'80 IN THE SANCTUM, Thompson 

" Beneath the rule of men entirely great, 
The scissors sway the destinies of state." 

OUR WIVES AND BABIES Landon 

" All who joy would win 
Must share it. Happiness was born a twin." 

OUR JOLLY BACHELORS Kemp 

" Happy am I, from care I'm free, 
Why aren't they all contented like me ? " 

THE DEAR GIRLS, ...... Anable 

" Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen, 
And here's to the widow of fifty." 

"LOOKING BACKWARD," Ickxer 

" Often a retrospect delights the mind." 

LOOKING FORWARD, Crane 

" The best of prophets of the future is the past." 

OUR QUITUATES, Gadsden 

" Not lost, but gone before." 

"OLD UNION," Alexander 



Although Phil had kept mighty quiet about it, the boys had 
ascertained that Crane was arranging to be married on Thursday, 
two days later, and after his speech, he was again called up to 
receive from the hands of the chairman, on behalf of the Class, 
a fine carving set in ivory and silver, in a handsome case, as an 
expression of the good wishes of the Class for him and his soon- 
to-be bride. This elicited another speech, brief but full of feeling. 

It was well into the morning when, amid general congratula- 
tion, good feeling, enthusiasm and ebriety, the crowd broke up 
with cheers for Union and Eighty. 



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While the celebration was apparently over, to those who could 
accept the general invitation which had been extended to the 
boys present at the Reunion, to spend two weeks at Lake George 
as the guests of the retiring president, later events proved that 
the fun had just commenced. 

Commencement day dawned as usual bright and fair, and the 
boys, suiting their own pleasures, passed the morning in various 
ways, though most of them went to the Commencement exercises, 
solely to see how Aleck would walk up to the stage and conduct 
himself as a Trustee, for he had been elected the previous day a 
permanent Trustee of the University. Fear was expressed that 
his frequent libations at the supper would interfere with his 
official dignity.* 

At 1:40 p. m. the boys congregated at the depot, where a 
special car had been procured, and soon, with coats removed, 
cigars lighted, the banner hanging from the window, and our 
coming announced at each station by a chorus of sixteen horns, 
we were speeding on our way to Caldwell. 

The ride was pleasant and uneventful, if we except the desperate 
flirtation which Andy Dougherty got up with a susceptible widow 
in the next car, and the fact that Andy Anderson got intoxicated 
at Saratoga on mineral water. At Glens Falls we were reinforced 
by the genial Jack Parry, and our party was complete. 

To those who have visited Lake George it is needless to 
describe the charms of that beautiful spot. To those who have 
not, language, modern or profane, fails to adequately portray its 
beauties. The big banner again came into use in our hour's sail 
down Lake George from Caldwell to Bolton, being run up to the 
top of the flag pole of the Ticonderoga, and for that trip we owned 
the boat. 

At 6 p. m. we arrived at Bolton Landing and piled bundle and 
baggage upon the Livingston B. Morse, a diminutive steamer 
with a big name, captained by a big Brown man with a bigger 
fund of good nature, and the biggest kind of a desire to make it 
pleasant for the boys. Soon we were at the Lake View House, 
run by R. J. Brown, who came near receiving an election to an 

*Alexander carried himself fairly well and no one mistrusted his condition 
save one of his old girls. — R. 



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honorary membership of '80. What a rush for supper, what 
appetites, what a supper ! We all enjoyed it to its utmost, save 
one poor fellow, who, feeling above the common herd, declined 
to eat with the rest, and demanded his supper of cholera mixture 
with cramp sauce served to him alone in a private room at the 
rear of the hotel. Poor Judge ! But he got over his pride and 
other weaknesses in a short time so he could eat with the rest. 

On the wall behind the tables where we ate was a large flag, 
appropriately draped over the inscription, "Union, '80." Three 
tables were arranged around three sides of a square, and around 
the outer edge of these we thereafter gathered promptly three 
times a day. 

We landed at Buena Vista, the Alexander cottage, at 7:40 p. m. 
At 7:41-2 p. m. Godfrey and Parry, the photograph fiends, had 
their cameras in position and began their persecutions. During 
their entire stay their cry was, " Now, fellows, keep still a minute, 
will you," or, "Come over under the trees for a group," varied 
only by the expletives of Rogers, vainly trying to get a picture of 
Aleck in his shirt, or Honest John in no shirt at all, with a camera 
which would not work. What pictures were taken, and, alas, 
what pictures were not taken ! Some of the former we repro- 
duce here. Had we them all, no words of the historian could 
add any thing to the completeness of the account of our 
stay at Lake George. The memory of that first night at 
Buena Vista will linger long in our hearts. Gathered upon 
its ample piazzas, breathing the pure air, listening to the 
wind blowing through the pines and the Judge's whiskers, rev- 
elling in the cool and invigorating breezes and drinking in all the 
beauties of a moonlight scene on Lake George, we chatted, sang, 
told stories, smoked, and indulged in reminiscences, while occa- 
sionally the toot of a horn, the hoarse cry of Aleck, or the wild 
rebel yell of Thompy would break the stillness of the night and 
send the echoes piling down on us from the overhanging moun- 
tains. Kemp talked politics. Andy sang a solo and played an 
accompaniment on an old army bugle. Dougherty related some 
of his wild Parisian experiences. Ripton tried to show off his 
learning by discoursing on Metaphysics, and was frequently heard 
to murmur, "Dulce est desipere in loco" which he said was Latin 
for " 'Tis sweet to dissipate in this place." Rav. interspersed 



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terse remarks about fish culture and " nigger rule," while Godfrey 
and Anable drew lots for the first chance at Godfrey's office the 
next morning. Inside, in the big living room of the cottage, 
others were disporting themselves with sundry hearts and spades, 
and pasteboard counters of variegated colors, while in the corner 
under a lamp was a single, crouching, puffing figure, revelling in 
the pages of " Kreutzer Sonata." Finally, Thompy told a story 
about a peculiar kind of flute they have in South Carolina, and 
that broke up the party and we prepared for bed. 

There was great anxiety as to who should sleep with Dougherty, 
his Parisian tales having made most of us rather timid, but after 
he had been securely tied in a bed-cord and had been given a 
dose of chloral, combined wilh opium and henbane, Ickler 
consented to bunk with him. Godfrey wanted to sleep with 
Anderson so he could get a picture of him by moonlight as the 
sleeping beauty. Rip and Thompy, the two weaklings, were 
placed together, while Rav. and Gadsden linked fortunes as in 
the South Section of old. Parry finally consented to sleep with 
Bishop, and the rest of the gang disposed themselves according 
to their several preferences. Rogers, as the medical man, was 
allowed as a reward for his services to sleep with the belle of the 
occasion, and turned in with the Judge at 11:30 p. m. At 11:31 
he had, by actual count, seven hundred and four bedfellows, all 
thirsting for R. I. blood, and by morning they had it. The next 
night, however, a mosquito net mitigated the letting of bad blood. 
It is unnecessary to picture each day of our stay at Buena 
Vista ; indelibly fixed are the memories of those happy days. 
Each day brought new pleasures, recalled new, yet old memories 
of college days, each day the bonds of friendship and fraternity 
among the sons of '80 grew stronger and with each day grew the 
conviction that the associations thus revived should never be 
allowed to fall into innocuous desuetude. 

Time sped on, Kemp and Anable were obliged to leave, Kemp, 
because the town of Delhi would not allow him to be longer 
outside its limits without increasing his bond, he having, as 
Supervisor, $1.30 of town funds with him, and Anable had a girl 
whom he could not leave alone over the glorious . Fourth. 
Muhlfelder and Crane, however, came to fill their places, and 
cowering under Dave's mighty wing, came back Dougherty, who 



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had been seduced into going back to Albany for twenty-four 
hours, and who did not reappear for five days, dreading the dire 
punishment he knew he so richly deserved and would certainly 
get. That night a solemn conclave was held, and after a fair and 
impartial trial, although the prisoner was not allowed to speak in 
his own behalf, and no one else would, he was convicted and 
condemned to be electroslippered. 

Rogers represented the awful chair of electrocution and firmly 
held the trembling Andy, and while Dave and Aleck, who were 
the dynamos, were registering one 1700 and the other 1737 volts, 
the negative pole was applied to Andy's gluteus maximus, and the 
positive pole was vested in a slipper in Rogers' right hand. At 
11:23^ p. m. the signal was given by Warden Ickler, and the 
switch was turned. There was a crash, a wild yell and all was 
over. Animation — plenty of it — was, however, subsequently 
restored to the body of the victim. 

The tennis-court had been laid out by the engineers of the 
party, and those who enjoyed that game passed many pleasant 
hours in play. Rav., Dick and the Doctor were the most regular 
wielders of the racquet, but before a week was out, the slow and 
ponderous Judge was wildly hitting the balls to the agile Dave, 
while Aleck himself would occasionally hit a ball with one of his 
yells and send it into the lake. 

Mention must be made of the latest grand victory of '80 over 
'79. White and Van Dusen, '79, were our guests for two days, 
and were presumptuous enough to think they could play tennis. 
Rogers and Rav. consented to play against them. It is unneces- 
sary to record the score, but for sake of future generations it may 
be noted that it was in '8o's favor by a score of 12 to 1 in two 
games. This, too, in spite of the encouraging comments and 
sympathetic applause which Van and Pif received from the 
unprejudiced onlookers. As a special favor, Rogers and 
Muhlfelder gave the dejected '79ers a chance to retrieve their 
shattered fortunes at whist, and beat them only seven straight 
games, and in the tournament of fifteen games won ten. 

Among our guests, foremost in the affections of the boys was 
Mrs. Crane, who with Phil, spent several days at the hotel, 
modestly bearing her new honors, but unabashed at meeting so 
many new brothers-in-law. If she enjoyed that portion of her 



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bridal trip as much as the good wishes of the boys entitled her 
to, she was indeed fortunate. 

President Webster, Dr. Alexander and Prof. Perkins were also 
our guests for several days, and laying aside all their dignity, they 
entered into the fun with right good will, and Perk even consented 
to have his picture taken in swimming costume. Long live Perk ! 
May his mammae never grow less ! 

Some of the boys went fishing. Gadsden caught a shiner that 
weighed nearly an ounce, and Judge, after persistently rowing all 
day in the rain, caught a six-pound " trout," which was worth 
just fifty dollars, or would have been if some one had reported 
him as having violated the game laws of the State, in catching a 
black bass in July, but most of the boys were too lazy to fish, and 
the finny tribe escaped destruction. 

To lie in the hammock and wait for meal time was as vigorous 
exercise as Ripton and Anable could be persuaded to take. It 
was the latter, whose poetic mind once evolved this impromptu : 

"That all- softening, overpowering knell, 
The tocsin of the soul — the dinner bell." 

The first Sunday Thompy and Rip. were by lot selected to 
represent us at church, and with much difficulty they were started 
off in resplendent Sunday clothes. Thompy gained an enviable 
reputation for piety by the vigorous way he shouted the responses, 
but spoiled it by remarking in an audible aside that the Te Deum 
sang by the choir was more te-dious than te-deum. Competent 
judges have considered this the brightest saying ever heard at 
Lake George, but they evidently had never heard his bologna 
sausage story, which undoubtedly took the cake. It is said that 
these two worthies got even with their consciences by depositing 
their poker winnings of the night previous in the contribution box. 

The last Sunday in camp, we climbed one of the neighboring 
mountains for the view it afforded from its top. We started out 
a dozen strong, but after ascending seventeen feet and four inches, 
as estimated by Andy's barometer, Dave sat down on a log and 
declared himself perfectly enchanted with the view, and declined 
to go further. The rest, after a hard thirty minutes climb, reached 
the top. More than repaid were they by the view spread before 



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them. To the south were Glens Falls and Caldwell ; while Ickler 
vowed he could see Albany. On our left the range of mountains 
overlooking the lake, terminated in Tongue Mountain, separating 
the Lake at the Narrows from the great Northwest bay, while, 
farther on, and across the lake, the towering Black Mountain 
overtopped them all. Beneath us, nestling in its mountainous 
embrace, lay the crystal lake, its dancing blue waters dotted here 
and there with tree-grown islands and fleeting sails, extending 
to the Narrows, where it was lost in the rugged outlines of the 
enclosing ranges. The Sagamore, with its beautiful grounds and 
surroundings, lay before us, and beyond it the rounded shore line 
of Northwest bay looked like an emerald frame to all the love- 
liness of the picture. 

The beauties of the scene, related to Dave on our return, failed 
to arouse him to enthusiasm, but when we described the foaming 
beer found on our way back, and described its cooling effects, he 
fairly wept with sorrow that he had not stuck with the crowd. 

Boats at the cottage were plenty, and those who could row 
enjoyed, three times a day, a ride across Concordia Bay to the 
hotel for meals, while occasionally the whole fleet came into 
requisition, and longer trips were taken. Andy and Aleck one 
day went swimming and rowing at the same time with brilliant 
success, while Rogers thought he could sail a canoe, and was 
rescued from a watery grave by Honest John, who was providen- 
tially near by. Parry rowed four miles, to sail back with an 
extended umbrella, and Thompy slid into a boat every chance he 
could get when some one else had the oars, and there was no 
likelihood of his being called on to row. 

Musicians, if we except Judge and Dave, we had none, but 
nevertheless, we did have some excellent singing, and whatever 
was lacking in quality was more than made up in quantity and 
vigor. The boys serenaded Crane and his wife one night at the 
hotel, and it was only the fear that possibly they sang under the 
wrong window that prevented the serenade being a pronounced 
success. 

Fourth-of-July was passed in great style. Embarking on a 
steam yacht, and running the '80 flag to the mainmast, we sailed 
with song and jest to Baldwin, 15 miles down the Lake, expecting 
to meet there a Tally-ho coach to convey us to Fort Ticonderoga. 



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Instead of a Tally-ho we found a beer saloon and one pugnacious 
inebriate who " had more money than the whole crowd, by gosh," 
and who was looking for the man who struck him. When Dave's 
muscular form was pointed out to him as his assailant, and he 
had felt his enormous biceps, Billy Patterson wilted and fled. 
Anderson and Gadsden started to walk to Ti. village on the 
railroad track, but being out of practice in counting ties, they 
soon came back, and the question of going back to Rogers' Rock 
for dinner was debated with warm adherents on both sides. Some 
wanted to go one way, some another. Ickler wanted to see the 
Fort. The Professor was hungry, and besides had missed his 
usual morning exercise, and voted for dinner. Finally a vote was 
taken, but owing to the imperfect action of the returning board, 
the meeting adjourned in disorder and the gang started for 
Ticonderoga. Rogers and Landon went after the coach and 
returned for Ripton, who had eaten so much at a neighboring 
farm house that he was unable to walk. After dinner we all 
piled on the coach, and to the musical notes of a fish horn we 
left the town. It was a delightful ride, a beautiful country, 
excellent roads, good horses, a historically interesting spot, and 
a gay crowd that made the day a memorable one even among the 
host of good times we experienced. Bishop so far forgot himself 
as to flirt with an elderly female while at the Burleigh House, 
and both Gadsden and Rip. enjoyed the society of the fair 
damsels of Ti. village, passing themselves off as single men. 

That night Anderson and Rogers took charge of the fireworks, 
and on Landlord Brown's catamaran, anchored out in Huddle 
Bay, gave an exhibition of pyrotechnics that rivalled Pain's 
greatest effort in its beauty and extravagance. 

Anderson tried the heretofore unparalleled feat of setting off 
a rocket, holding two sticks of red fire in each hand and shooting 
roman candles at Captain Brown, and succeeded in doing all, 
besides setting fire to the boat. After such heroic efforts, and 
after receiving so many burns, it was shameful that the two men 
in charge should have received so much abuse on their return to 
the cottage. 

But alas ! the best of friends must part, and the bulliest of 
times must come to an end, and only too soon was it necessary 
to say good-bye to the departing sons of '80. Monday, July 7th, 



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the majority left on the morning boat, Bishop with a suspiciously 
red nose, Rav. with his glasses upside down, Gadsden in tears, 
Thompy with his " boots full of blood," and sixty-three cents in 
his pants pocket, which he won by getting sleepy at an opportune 
moment the night before. Only Aleck, Judge, Dave and Rogers 
were left behind. Next day they too had departed, and the great 
Decennial Reunion of the Class of '80 was over. 

But the memory of it ? Oh, no ! Nor will the Lake dwellers, 
nor the rural residents along the line of the D. & H. soon 
forget the Decennial Reunion of the Class of '80. Our fame 
has gone through all the region round about. Visitors on 
their disembarkation at Bolton Landing now first of all inquire 
"where it was those college boys put up," and Brown, of Lake 
View, has grown wealthy and fat off the profits our prestige 
brought to his hotel. Out in the music hall, our '80 banners 
are still hung on the inner wall, and great curiosity has been 
manifested at the numerous hops given in the building, to know 
the significance of the word "Hikah" and to hear again the 
story of the doings and sayings of '80, while the pretty waiters, 
all but the sprightly little Bessie, whose heart the Major and the 
Doctor completely shivered, never weary of dwelling upon our 
wisdom, wit, virtue, pulchritude and sobriety. 

Yes, the Reunion is over, but ever and anon the cottagers 
on the shores of the beautiful lake still hear ringing down the 
mountain sides, and in and out of Concordia Bay, that wierd and 
far-reaching cry so often and so vociferously repeated during our 
stay, that its echoes have not yet ceased to reverberate : — 

" Rah, Rah, Rah ! u-n-i-o-n ! Hikah ! Hikah ! Hikah ! 
Eight-y ! £1 ^x^tXiosr Ilaidayajyo^ Oijxoi! 



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THE DECENNIAL SONG. 

By A. H. Dougherty. 

We're coming o'er the mountains, o'er the rivers and the plain, 
From Atlantic's stormy border, from Pacific's golden main, 
From lands of palms and roses, loyalty to proclaim, 
To Union and our Class. 

Chorus. 

Union, Union, let the chorus ring, 
Eighty, Eighty, let us long and loudly sing, 
Honor, fame and laurels may we proudly bring, 
To Union and our Class. 

Our hearts are firm, united and our sympathies are one, 
Our bonds of love and friendship have only just begun ; 
We'll stand by one another till great victories are won, 
For Union and our Class. 

Chorus. 

To help each noble brother, to stand by truth and right, 
To fill our highest missions, our honor now we plight, 
Our noble cause defending with courage, power and might, 
For Union and our Class. 

Chorus. 



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JUBILATE. 
1880— 1890. 

Happy are we to-night, boys, 

Happy, happy are we, 
Old friendships anew we plight, boys, 

To-night we're joyous and free. 
Loud and long we'll swell the song, 

Let joy and laughter reign, 
What though Old Time tells off the years, 

We're college boys again. 

Chorus. 

Merry are we to-night, boys, 

Merry, merry are we, 
For care rests on us light, boys, 

As the foam on yonder sea. 

Joyous the song we sing, boys, 

Merry, merry the song ; 
For " Union and Eighty" shall ring, boys, 

And Echo our shouts prolong. 
Out in the world we have our tasks, 

And soon to them return, 
But here are we with hearts as free 

As if college boys once more. 

Chorus. 

Union and Eighty for aye, boys, 

Eighty and Union for aye, 
Long may their garnet banners, 

Wave to the winds on high. 
Long may our Alma Mater gray 

Emit her generous light ; 
And long may Eighty hold the sway 

Which she holds in our hearts to-night. 

Chorus. 

Shout for the Class we love, boys, 
Cheer for the Class we love ; 

Eighty, the great unconquered, 
Her fame all the world above. 



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Many an hour has been sad, boys, 

Many, many an hour ; 
But now our hearts are glad, boys, 

And sadness has no power ; 
To-night our souls together blend, 

Together blend and flow, 
As rain drops from the skies unite, 

And into rivers grow. 

Chorus. 

Never, where'er we rove, boys, 

Where'er our lot is cast. 
Shall memory cease to love, boys, 

To linger round the past. 
Years may pass and bring us pain, 

And Time may make us sad ; 
But we to-night may joyful sing, 

For all our hearts are glad. 

Chorus. 

Then join in the chorus to-night, boys, 

With might the music swell, 
For care rests on us light, boys, 

As mists in the Summer dell. 
The golden memories of this day 

Shall twine a lasting bond, 
Which Eighty's boys of Union's sons 

Forever shall surround. 

Chorus. 

Then merrily sing to-night, boys, 

Happy, happy are we ; 
True friendship once more plight, boys, 

To-night our hearts are free. 



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STATISTICAL. 





MARRIAGES. 








Alexander, 


Annie Clare, 


Schenectady, N. Y. 


Aug. 


21, 


1884 


Anderson, 


Elizabeth G. Hollister, 


Scranton, Pa., 


Sept. 


16, 


1885 


Benedict, 


Elizabeth M. Junken, 


Washington, D. C. 


, Nov. 


22, 


1883 


Benjamin, 


Anne Engel Rogers, 


New York, 


Nov. 


17, 


1886 


Bronk, 


Louisa Powell Benedict, 


New York, 


May 


8, 


1884 


Burnett, 


Annie H. Cummings, 


Virginia City, Nev. 


, Oct. 


28, 


1886 


Campbell, 


Leila B. McClelland, 


Louisville, Ky., 


Jan. 


29, 


1885 


Crane, 


*Louisa H. Rosa, 


Schenectady, N. Y. 


, Jan. 


2, 


1883 




Nellie Pronk, 


Middletown, N. Y. 


, June 


26, 


1890 


Davenport, 


Susie E. Lee, 


Glenville, N. Y., 


Mar. 


13, 


1878 


Dixon, 


Jessie White, 


Cohoes, N. Y., 


June 


25, 


1885 


Ely, 


Clara C. Duff, 


New York, 


Oct. 


2, 


1883 


Fitzgerald, 


Grace Van Vranken, 


Schenectady, N. Y. 


, Sept. 


20, 


1888 


Gadsden, 


Leila P. Pendleton, 


Lexington, Va., 


Feb. 


12, 


1885 


Gibson, 


Mary Stewart, 


Philadelphia, Pa., 


June 


16, 


1887 


Godfrey, 


Elma Beach, 


Bridgeport, Conn., 


Jan. 


27, 


1881 


Ickler, 


Ida E. Stowell, 


Peoria, 111., 


Aug. 


5, 


1890 


Landon, 


Mary T. Gilmour, 


Schenectady, N. Y. 


, Nov. 


12, 


1885 


Landreth, 


Amelia T. Fitzgerald, 


Schenectady, N. Y. 


, May 


7, 


1881 


Legge, 


Elizabeth Judd Hutchinson 


Summerville, S. C.j 


Aug. 


2, 


1888 


fLOWELL, 


Kate B. Myers, 


Chicago, 111., 


Sept. 


2, 


1886 


McNULTY, 


May Sprengle, 


Ashland, Ohio, 


Nov. 


27, 


1884 


Noble, 


Marguerite Salisbury, 


Nelliston, N. Y., 


Sept. 


12, 


1888 


Parry, 


Nathalie B. Groesbeck, 


Sandy Hill, N. Y., 


Apl. 


28, 


1886 


Ravenel, 


Elizabeth S. Fitzsimons, 


Charleston, S. C, 


Feb. 


14, 


1883 


RlPTON, 


Francena Nare, 


Johnstown, N. Y., 


June 


2, 


1880 


Rogers, 


Carrie E. Gavitt, 


Westerly, R. I., 


Nov. 


15, 


1882 


Sadler, 


Alice A. Beaumont, 


Schenectady, N. Y. 


Oct. 


25, 


1882 


Slingerland 


Jennie M. Reynolds, 


Augusta, 111., 


Jan. 


13, 


1885 


Thompson, 


Fanny C. Mclver, 


Darlington, S. C, 


Feb. 


i, 


1883 


Vincent, 


Jennie S. Fuller, 


Binghamton, N. Y. 


, Dec. 


30, 


1880 



♦Died September 29, 1885. 
tDied March 17, 1887. 



i88o 


June 


18. 


1881 


May 


20. 


1881 


. Dec 


30. 


1882 


Dec. 


19. 


1883 


July 


8. 


1883 


Oct. 


12. 


1883 


Dec. 


10. 


1884 


Feb. 


19. 


1884 


May 


20. 


1884 


Oct. 


22. 


1885 


Feb. 


4- 


1885 


Feb. 


6. 


1885 


Feb. 


15. 


1885 


Nov. 


n. 


1885 


Dec. 


29. 


1886 


April 


11. 


1886 


April 


11. 


1886 


April 


12. 


1886 


July 


7- 


1886 


Oct. 


4- 


1886 


Nov. 


14. 


1887 


April 


3- 


1887 


April 


4- 


1887 


April 


21. 


1887 


April 


28. 


1887 


May 


11. 


1887 


July 


15. 


1887 


Sept. 


24. 


1888 


Jan. 


8. 


1888 


Jan 


30. 


1888 


Feb. 


4- 


1888 


Feb. 


15. 


1888 


Mar. 


22. 


1889 


Jan. 


5- 


1889 


April 


22. 


1889 


July 


18. 


1889 


Aug. 


16. 


1889 


Sept. 


24. 


1889 


Nov. 


26. 


1889 


Dec. 


11. 


1890 


May 


21. 



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BIRTHS. 

Bessie E. Davenport, died January 25, 1882. 

Maud Ripton. 

Edward Fuller Vincent. 

Edwin Alexander Godfrey, died April 25, 1886. 

Adeline Sara Landreth. 

Robert Landon Rogers. 

Julia Fitzsimons Ravenel. 

Fannie Edith Vincent, died February 12, 1885. 

Edith May Crane. 

Sheila Beaumont Sadler, died November 9, 1884. 

James Junken Benedict. 

Samuel Du Bose Ravenel, died 1885. 

Selden Rogers Ely. 

Viola Hortense Campbell. 

Henry Tazewell Thompson, died March 17, 1886. 

Elinor Porcher Gadsden. 

Anzolette Pendleton Gadsden. 

Earl White Dixon. 

Gaillard Fitzsimons Ravenel. 

Ruth Alexander, died July 23, 1890. 

Mary Landreth. 

John Elliot Parry, Jr. 

Fanny Mclver Thompson. 

Eli S. Godfrey, Jr. 

Fred. Alexander Rogers. 

Cora Ely, died August 7, 1887. 

Robert T. S. Lowell, 3d. 

Charles W. Benedict. 

Carl E. Anderson. 

Judson Stuart Landon. 

Ellen DuBose Ravenel. 

Helen Beaumont Sadler. 

William Stewart Gibson. 

Beatrice May Benjamin. 

Nathaniel Groesbeck Parry. 

Phyllis Cleveland Burnett. 

Eliza C. Thompson. 

Harry Lee Davenport. 

Elizabeth Jennie Benedict. 

Lionel Kennedy Legge. 

James E. Noble, 2d. 



75 



OCCUPATIONS. 

Law. — Alexander, Bishop, Bronk, Burnett, Halpen, Ingram, 

Kemp, Landon, McMaster, Muhlfelder, Pruyn, Thompson. 

— 12. 
Business. — Anable, Ballart, Benjamin, Crane, Davenport, Ely, 

Godfrey, Ickler, Noble, Ryan, Vosburgh. — n. 
Engineering. — Anderson, Fitzgerald, Glover, Landreth, Mc- 

Nulty, Sadler. — 6. 
Medicine. — Craig, Gibson, W. P. Porcher, Rogers. — 4. 
Teaching. — Dixon, Legge, Ripton, Tuttle. — 4. 
Government Service. — Benedict, Gadsden, Ravenel, Vincent. 

— 4- 
Farming or Planting. — I. C. Porcher, Slingerland, Vincent. — 3. 

Banking. — Lawrence, Parry, Van Santvoord. — 3. 

Railroads. — Campbell, *Lowell, McCorkle. — 3. 

Editorial. — Ingram, Thompson. — 2. 

Art. — Dougherty. — 1. 

Architecture, Medicine and Law. — Watkins. — 1. 

♦Deceased. 



HYMENEAL. 



Married, 

Bachelors, 

Engaged, 



3° 
21 

r 



CHILDREN 



Total number, 

Boys, 
Girls, 

Total number living, 

Boys, . 
Girls, 



4i 



21 

20 



18 
i5 



33 



76 

GEOGRAPHICAL. 

States Represented. — New York, 29. South Carolina, 5. 
Pennsylvania, 3. District of Columbia, 3. Massachusetts,!. 
California, 1. Arkansas, 1. Wisconsin, 1. Minnesota, 1. 
Colorado, 1. Alabama, r. Missouri, 1. Rhode Island, 1. 

Illinois, 1. Ohio, 1. Paris, France, 1. Total States 
represented, 16. 

RELIGIOUS PREFERENCES. 

Episcopalian, . . . . 13 

Presbyterian, . . . . 9 

Methodist, ..... 2 

Congregational, ... .2 

Reformed Church, ... 2 

Catholic, . . . . .2 

United Presbyterian, ... 1 

Baptist, . . . . .1 

Seventh Day Baptist, ... 1 

Home Baptist, 1 

No Expression, . . . . 16 

POLITICAL PREFERENCES. 

Republican, .... 29 

Democrat, . . . . .13 

Prohibitionist, .... 2 

Greenbacker, 1 

Mugwump, .... 1 
No Expression, .... 6 

THE TARIFF. 

Protectionist, . . . . 18 

For Revenue only, . . 6 

Free Traders, . . . . 4 

Straddlers, . . . . .3 

No Expression, .... 22 

TEMPERANCE. 

High License, . . . . 21 

Prohibition, . . . . .2 

Free Whiskey, .... 4 

No Expression, . . . 25 



17 

THE LATEST ADDRESSES. 

(Please send immediate notice of any changes in the following to Prof. B. H. 
Ripton, Secretary, Union College, Schenectady ', N. Y.) 

Robert C. Alexander, 23 Park Row, New York. 

Richard D. Anable, care of Goodhue & Birnie, Springfield, Mass. 

Wilber E. Anderson, Providence Place, Scranton, Pa. 

Frederick A. Ballart, 107 Tully St., Syracuse, N. Y. 

James E. Benedict, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 

William E. Benjamin, 500 Madison Ave., New York. 

Charles F. Bishop, ill Broadway, New York. 

William Rea Bronk, 2 Wall Street, New York. 

Isaac G. Burnett, Lawyers Block, San Diego, Cal. 

Horace J. Campbell, Pres't Stuttgart & Ark. River R. R. , Stuttgart, Ark. 

Dr. Joseph D. Craig, 12 Ten Broeck St., Albany, N. Y. 

Frank P. S. Crane, Middletown, N. Y. 

Frank S. Davenport, Nat. Exp. Co., Mechanicsville, N. Y. 

Professor George E. Dixon, Cohoes, N. Y. 

Andrew H. Dougherty, 59 North Pearl St., Albany, N. Y. 

Frank S. Ely, 163 East I22d St., New York. 

John L. Fitzgerald, Schenectady, N. Y. 

E. Miles Gadsden, P. O. Dept , Washington, D. C. 

Dr. William J. Gibson, 711 S. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

David F. Glover, Bavfield, Wis. 

Eli S. Godfrey, 116 Front St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Daniel P. Halpen, 103 Madison Ave , Albany, N. Y. 

John Ickler, 147 Dakota Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 

William H. Ingram, Sumter, S. C. 

John A. Kemp, Delhi, N. Y. 

Robert J. Landon, Schenectady, N. Y. 

William B. Landreth, Schenectady. N. Y. 

James S. Lawrence, Gunnison, Colorado. 

Professor Claude L. Legge, 11 President St., Charleston, S. C. 

Wm. T. McCorkle, East Tenn., Va. & Ga. R'y Co., Knoxville, Tenn. 

James M. McMaster, Jackson Block, Birmingham, Ala. 

Wm. J. McNulty, Street Dept., City Hall, St. Louis, Mo. 

David Muhlfelder, Room 46, Bensen Building, Albany, N. Y. 

Edward B. Noble, 74 Division St., Albany, N. Y. 

John E. Parry, Glens Falls Nat'l Bank, Glens Falls, N. Y. 

Isaac de C. Porcher, Ophir, Berkeley Co., S. C. 

Dr. Walter P. Porcher, 4 George St., Charleston, S. C. 

Col. John V. L. Pruyn, 13 Elk St., Albany, N. Y. 

Wm. de C. Ravenel, U. S. Fish Commission, Washington, D. C. 

Professor Benjamin H. Ripton, Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. 

Dr. Fred. T. Rogers, 538 Broad St., Providence, R. I. 

Lieut. Philip J. Ryan, The Alpine, 33d St. and Broadway, New York. 

Wm. H. Sadler, 2067 N. Main Ave., Scranton, Pa. 

George H. Slingerland, Augusta, 111. 

Wright J. Sweet, Cleveland, O. , Asylum for the Insane. 

Maj. Henry T. Thompson, Darlington, S. C. 

Professor L. Grove Tuttle, Troy Business College, Troy, N. Y. 

Charles H. Van Auken, Cohoes, N. Y. 

Talcott C. Van Santvoord, 10 West nth St., New York. 

Edgar L. Vincent, Maine, Broome Co., N. Y. 

Miles W. Vosburgh, 721 Broadway, Albany, N. Y. 

Edward W. Watkins, Schenectady, N. Y. 



78 



OFFICERS 



1890— 1900. 






President, 

Vice-President, 

Secretary, 

Treasurer, 

Poet, 

Historian, 



Dr. FRED. T. ROGERS. 

FRANK P. S. CRANE. 

Prof. BENJAMIN H. RIPTON. 

ANDREW H. DOUGHERTY. 

Mat. HENRY T. THOMPSON. 

ROBERT J. LANDON. 






FORMER PRESIDENTS. 



William Bronk, 
William H. Ingram, 
David Muhlfelder, 
Robert C. Alexander, 



1876-7. 

1877-8. 

1878-9. 

1879-1890. 



TRIENNIAL BULLETIN COMMITTEE. 
R. C. Alexander. John Ickler. C. F. Bishop. 



QUINQUENNIAL BULLETIN COMMITTEE. 
R. C. Alexander. 



DECENNIAL BULLETIN COMMITTEE. 
Fred. T. Rogers. C. F. Bishop. R. C. Alexander. 



NOTE. 

To those of the Class who were in camp on Lake George, the photographs 
which follow need no comment. To the rest a few marginal notes may be 
helpful. These are selected from among fifty or more negatives taken by 
Parry and Godfrey, the four first being after Jack, the four others after Godfrey. 
Five of the boys who were at the Lake, Anable, Kemp, Muhlfelder, Crane and 
Dougherty, do not appear in any of the groups. Godfrey unintentionally broke 
the only negative which had Kemp and Anable on it, and the other three were 
absent when the photographers put in their best work. 

The pictures, in their order, represent : 

1. The cottage where we camped, with a dozen of the fellows in front, 
and the banner of '8o just visible above them. From the flag-pole in the 
background floated another descriptive banner. 

2. The view, looking down the lake from the front piazza. Leontine 
Island is seen in the foreground, a half mile distant, beyond it the lake as it 
contracts at the Narrows, and nearly over it, Black Mountain. On Green 
Island, in the centre of the picture, is the Sagamore Hotel, two miles distant. 
Above it is seen the Tongue Mountain range, and behind it lies the Northwest, 
or Ganouskie Bay. At the left is the point on which stands the Mohican 
House, and nearer by Sweetbriar Island. The Lake View House is on a point 
just to the left of this Island, not shown in the picture. 

3. A random piazza group, representing, reading from the left, Alexander, 
Ravenel, Rogers, Anderson, Pendleton (a visitor, Brown University, '85), 
Thompson, Ripton, and Godfrey. 

4. A tennis court scene, with the cottage in the background. It shows 
(from the left) Anderson, Godfrey, Alexander, Rogers, Ravenel, Thompy, and 
Gadsden, the umpire. 

5. Represents the boat-house, with Rogers playing a gamey " pumpkin 
seed " from the dock, and Ickler just starting out for the beer saloon. 

6. A group on the tennis court. They are (from the left) Ickler, 
Alexander, Godfrey, Landon, Ravenel, Rogers, Thompson, Parry, Bishop, 
Ripton, Anderson and Gadsden. 

7. Another piazza group. In the lower tier, Gadsden, Anderson and 
Rogers; on the next, Ravenel, and two Alexanders ; on the next, Profs. Ripton 
and Perkins, Landon and Bishop, and at the top of the heap, Major Thompson 
and President Webster. 

8. Four of the Faculty, Perk, with his pipe, Rip. with his horn, Prex. in 
his shirt sleeves, and Prof. Alec, paddling a canoe under the bank. In the 
background is Tongue Mountain, the Sagamore and Leontine Island. 

THE LAST WORD. 

The Secretary earnestly requests that the members of the Class keep him 
fully and promptly posted, not only of any changes of address, but of any 
business, professional or domestic changes, sending him letters, announcements, 
newspaper notices, publications, or any thing affecting the interests of any of 
the Class. Only thus can our present excellent degree of organization be 
maintained. Address : B. H. Ripton, Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. 
Additional copies of this Record may be obtained of the Committee at 
$2.50 each. 



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